Comrade Sisters Book Tour

ericka huggins and Stephen Shames' Comrade Sisters Book Tour Event featuring a Women of the Black Panther Party Panel with Deborrah Bremon, Cheryl Dawson, and Angela Y. Davis

The first day of the Comrade Sisters Women of the Black Panther Party book tour included a second stop across the Bay in San Francisco at City Lights Bookstore.

My grad school alma mater, Stanford University, was the next stop.

This was a moment of sheer joy for (left to right) M. Gayle Asali Dickson, ericka huggins, and Rev. Cheryl Dawson during the women of the BPP panel at MoAD.

In Los Angeles there is a Black woman-owned bookstore called Reparations Club.

The day after Irvine, women of the BPP traveled to the University of California Los Angeles.

UC Irvine is perhaps one of the more unlikely places you might expect to find a Comrade Sisters Women of the Black Panther Party event!

U.C. Berkeley would be the third of the three U.C.’s to host a Comrade Sisters event.

At the Oakland Museum of California, the October 21st Comrade Sisters Women of the Black Panther Party event was held outdoors as part of the weekly Friday Nights at OMCA with Off the Grid series featuring music and food trucks.

New York was home for a week from October 24th-30th during which time we had 8 events in 6 days.

Everywhere we went Panther Party members were asked to stand and be honored.

Denise Oliver-Velez, who was both a New York Chapter Black Panther member and a Young Lords member, joined the conversation at Greenlight Books on Flatbush in Brooklyn.

On Friday October 28th Columbia University hosted co-authors Stephen Shames and ericka huggins and a women of the bpp panel featuring huggins, New York Panther Claudia Chesson-Williams, and Chicago Panther Lynn French.

The second event on October 28th was held at the McNally-Jackson Bookstore in the Seaport location in New York. We all gathered in a quaint and quiet space in the Biography section of the bookstore to listen to ericka huggins and Philadelphia (PA) and New Haven (CT) Panther Rosemari Mealy reflect on their time in the Party.

The Free Black Woman’s Library hosted the Comrade Sisters coauthors Stephen Shames and ericka huggins, and featured Oakland and New York BPP member Lauryn Williams Jackson on Saturday, October 29, 2022.

On October 30th, Unnameable Books hosted a Comrade Sisters event that featured New York BPP member Thelma Bunny Davis Legare.