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Elaine Brown is no stranger to standing up to oppression:
Elaine Brown is a former leader of the Black Panther Party, and author of A Taste of Power and The Condemnation of Little B.-A Taste of Power was optioned in 2007 by HBO in connection with its six-part series The Black Panthers, now in development.
. Elaine is presently co-authoring For Reasons of Race and Belief, The Trials of Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) with Karima Al-Amin (for 2009 publication by Basic Books), and she is completing the non-fiction book Melba and Al, A Story of Black Love in Jim Crow America (for 2009 publication by Seven Stories Press). She is the editor of Messages from Behind the Wall, a collection of autobiographical essays by black prisoners in New Mexico, published by the New Mexico Department of African American Affairs.
Also the City Council resolution that would have made assemblies illegal did not pass.