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A Boston photo exhibit highlights the women of the Black Panther Party

By Arielle S Gray
Published March 2, 2024 at 7:54 AM EST
Kathleen Cleaver, Communications Secretary and first female member of the Party’s decision-making Central Committee, talks with Black Panthers from Los Angeles who came to the “Free Huey” rally in DeFremery Park (named by the Panthers Bobby Hutton Park) in West Oakland (detail), 1968. Archival pigment print.
Gift of Lizbeth and George Krupp. © 2023, Stephen Shames
Kathleen Cleaver, Communications Secretary and first female member of the Party’s decision-making Central Committee, talks with Black Panthers from Los Angeles who came to the “Free Huey” rally in DeFremery Park (named by the Panthers Bobby Hutton Park) in West Oakland (detail), 1968. Archival pigment print.

An exhibit of Stephen Shames' photos of Black Panther women is on display in Boston. One local woman didn't know she was in the exhibit.
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