MLK Week 2019: My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain
Channel: Highline College
Date: 2019-02-07

Lecture presented by Aaron Dixon, former Black Panther Party Captain.

Aaron Dixon is a former captain of the Black Panther Party, Seattle Chapter. In Oakland, he worked in the BPP National Headquarters for six years as an assistant to Elaine Brown and Huey P. Newton. For 25 years, he worked for gang-involved and homeless youth. In 2006, he ran for the U.S. Senate as a Green Party candidate. He has traveled to Palestine with the African Heritage Delegation. Aaron Dixon is the author of My People are Rising (2012). He travels throughout the country speaking at college campuses and community centers. Aaron is working on his next book.