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Join us for a reading and discussion in celebration of Suzanne Cope’s new book POWER HUNGRY: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement in conversation with Cleo Silvers.

Suzanne Cope, PhD is a narrative journalist and food studies scholar with a focus on food as a tool for social and political change. In addition to her upcoming book POWER HUNGRY and SMALL BATCH (2014), she has written about food and culture for the New York Times, The Atlantic, CNN, BBC, among others. She also actively publishes and presents in academic forums and teaches writing and on food and politics at New York University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the musician Steve Mayone, and her two children.

Raised in Philadelphia, Cleo Silvers began her career in community and labor organizing as a VISTA Volunteer and activist in the South Bronx. She was a member of the Black Panther Party, later the Young Lords Party. She was recruited by James Forman and the central committee into the League of Revolutionary Black Workers - DRUM, etc., which became the Black Workers Congress, (BWC). She began her work with the BWC on a labor organizing introduction tour of the United States and organized in most of the major working-class cities in the country. Today she is working as a consultant at Cossitt Library in Memphis, Tennessee.