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Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party

Comrade Sisters is the first book to tell the story of the women of the Black Panther Party. The book contains 100 photographs by photographer Stephen Shames, along with interviews with 50 female party members and their families, organized by Erika Huggins, a former leader of the Black Panther Party. Today, the issues and solutions raised by the Black Panther Party are just as relevant as when the party was founded in Oakland, California, in October of 1966.

Walking up the stairs to photographer Stephen Shames’s apartment in Brooklyn is like walking through a history of the photographer’s work. Over a career that spans five decades, Shames has been all over the world, covering everything from child pover...

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Robert E. Gerhardt

Robert Gerhardt is a New York based photographer and freelance writer. His photographs and writings have been published nationally and internationally including in The Hong Kong Free Press, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Diplomat.

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