Founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the Black Panther Party was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.
The Party was active in the United States between 1966-1982.
Brown was the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Society between the years 1974-1977, joining the party in 1968.
As a Panther, she previously ran for City Council in Oakland, California, twice. She has been involved in prison and education reform and criminal justice since the 1970s.
She is the author of A Taste of Power and The Condemnation of Little B and is currently writing a biography of Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown).
Brown is also the founder and CEO of Oakland & the World Enterprises, Inc., a non-profit organization committed to launching and sustaining for-profit companies for cooperative ownership by formerly incarcerated people and those facing significant social obstacles to economic survival.
