https://t.co/ZcrDDUwq6k — wilfred chan (@wilfredchan) June 4, 2022But they also could have looked to the one political organization that has successfully run such a program previously: the Black Panthers. In 1969, Black Panther leader Huey Newton had a dancer girlfriend named LaVerne Anderson. She and her dance teacher helped the Black Panthers start what would eventually come to be called their Free Breakfast Program. In fact, as KQED notes, “Even the U.S. Department of Agriculture had to have taken note of what the Black Panthers were doing. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, hated the Black Panthers, viewing them as a dire threat to the American way of life.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2022 12:51 UTC