A long time coming the first book to tell the story of the women of the Black Panther Party A
book that continues to resonate 50 years later in the age of George Floyd and Black Lives
Matter Contributions by over 50 women Party members including Angela Davis Fredrika Newton
and Barbara Easley-Cox Extra resources available here including study aids and posters A new
photobook recalls the crucial but often overlooked role played by women in the Black Panther
party - The Guardian ... I guarantee this book will give you a new respect for a generation of
women militants. - Socialist Worker Comrade Sisters pairs Stephen's intimate incisive and
inspiring portraits and documentary photographs with testimonies from many surviving members
and their kin. - i-D France Historically illuminating photos of women Black Panthers. - The
Washington Post Many of us have heard these three words: Black Panther Party. Some know the
Party's history as a movement for the social political economic and spiritual upliftment of
Black and indigenous people of colour - but to this day few know the story of the backbone of
the Party: the women. It's estimated that six out of ten Panther Party members were women.
While these remarkable women of all ages and diverse backgrounds were regularly making
headlines agitating protesting and organising off-stage these same women were building
communities and enacting social justice providing food housing education healthcare and
more. Comrade Sisters is their story. The book combines photos by Stephen Shames who at the
time was a 20-year-old college student at Berkeley. With the complete trust of the Black
Panther Party Shames took intimate behind-the-scenes photographs that fully portrayed Party
members' lives. This marks his third photo book about the Black Panthers and includes many
never before published images. Ericka Huggins an early Party member and leader along with
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton has written a moving text sharing what drew so many women to the
Party and focusing on their monumental work on behalf of the most vulnerable citizens. Most
importantly the book includes contributions from over 50 former women members - some
well-known others not - who vividly recall their personal experiences from that time. Other
texts include a foreword by Angela Davis and an afterword by Alicia Garza. All Power to the
People.
