Elaine Borwn - About

August 8, 2007

Elaine Brown is a former leading member of the Black Panther Party, and author of A Taste of Power and The Condemnation of Little B.-A Taste of Power was optioned in January 2007 by HBO in connection with its planned six-part series “The Black Panthers.”•In 1996, after living seven years in France, Brown moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she established the nonprofit education corporation Fields of Flowers.

•Brown recently ran for mayor of Brunswick, Georgia (November 2005), toward creation of a base of economic power for the city’s majority black and poor population through redistribution of the massive revenues of the city’s port.

•Brown is presently writing For Reasons of Race and Belief, the biography of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) with Karima Al-Amin (for 2007 publication by Carroll & Graf). She is the editor of Trapped! Messages from Behind the Wall, a collection of autobiographical essays by black prisoners in New Mexico, set for publication by the State’s Department of African American Affairs in 2007.

•Brown is Executive Director of the Michael Lewis Legal Defense Committee, supporting the legal appeal of Lewis (”Little B”), who, arrested at the age of 13 for a murder he did not commit, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison (1997).

•In 1997, Brown co-founded Mothers Advocating Juvenile Justice, and, in 2002, co-founded and became a Board member of the National Alliance for Radical Prison Reform. Presently, Brown is a member of the Geechee Council of Georgia, a partner in Seize the Time, Inc., and a founder of the Brunswick Women’s Association for Community Improvement.

•Brown regularly lectures at colleges and universities throughout the country on “New Age Racism” and realization of the vision of eliminating racism, gender oppression and class disparity toward an inclusive and egalitarian world society.

•A fluent French speaker, Brown has traveled extensively throughout the world, from China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Algeria to France, Italy, Russia, Argentina, Uruguay, and elsewhere.

•Brown, who studied classical piano for years, has recorded two albums of original songs, one for Motown records, and her 1969 album, Seize the Time, which includes The Black Panther Party National Anthem (The Meeting), was re-released as a CD in January 2007 by Warner Bros.

•Brown grew up in the ghettos of North Philadelphia, and is the mother of one adult daughter, Ericka Abram.

•Brown has attended Temple University, UCLA, Mills College and Southwestern University School of Law. Brown’s papers have been acquired by Emory University.

FROM: http://www.elainebrown.org/ElaineBrownBio.php

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