Aug 08

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.

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