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DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Cope presents her new book, "Power Hungry: Women of the Black 
 Panther Party and Freedom Summer, and their Fight to Feed a Movement," in 
 conversation with one of the book's subjects, Cleo Silvers.\n\nIn early 
 1969, Cleo Silvers and a few Black Panther Party members met at a community 
 center with boxes of donated food to cook for the neighborhood children. By 
 the end of the year, the Black Panthers would be feeding more children 
 daily in all of their breakfast programs than the state of California was 
 at that time. More than a thousand miles away, Aylene Quin had spent the 
 decade using her restaurant in McComb, Mississippi, to host secret planning 
 meetings of civil rights leaders and organizations, feed the hungry, and 
 cement herself as a community leader who could bring people 
 together-physically and philosophically-over a meal. These two women's 
 tales, separated by a handful of years, tell the same story: how food was 
 used by women as a potent and necessary ideological tool in both the rural 
 south and urban north to create lasting social and political change. The 
 leadership of these women cooking and serving food in a safe space for 
 their communities was so powerful, the FBI resorted to coordinated 
 extensive and often illegal means to stop their efforts. But of course, it 
 was never just about the food.\n\nSuzanne Cope is a writing professor at 
 NYU who has been researching and writing about food and politics for years. 
 Her articles have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, 
 Atlantic, and Travel & Leisure, as well as with the BBC, CNN, Buzzfeed, 
 NPR, and more. \n\nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San 
 Francisco Public Library.\nFor accommodations (such as ASL interpretation 
 or captioning), call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. 
 Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure 
 availability.\n\nFree\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/07/15/18851041.php
SUMMARY:Suzanne Cope in Conversation with Cleo Silvers, Power Hungry
LOCATION:[ONLINE] San Francisco Main Library\n100 Larkin Street\nSan Francisco, CA 
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