JANE RHODES
Friday, February 8 at 7:30 p.m.

The enduring significance of the Black Panthers as cultural workers, icons, and—perhaps the first activists to successfully and skillfully exploit the possibilities of mass media is the subject of historian Jane Rhodes' Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon (The New Press). Jane Rhodes, dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and Chair of the American studies department at Macalester College, is also the author of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century. Seattle's own Black Panthers, founders of the still-operating Odessa Brown Children's Clinic, make a brief appearance in Dr. Rhodes' book.

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