Kent Ford: Talking with a Panther

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Selections from a talk by Kent Ford, co-founder of the Portland chapter of the Black Panther Party. Ford helped lead the Panthers’ Free Breakfast for School Children Program in Portland and currently leads Black Panther Legacy Tours in the Albina neighborhood. He is the subject of the solo play “Walking through Portland with a Panther: The Life of Mr. Kent Ford.”  Audio courtesy of the WSU DocArts Program.

 

Photo of Kent Ford by Pete Forsyth, Wiki Strategies, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.  Interior photo of an elder Black man with grey beard wearing a grey cap and a tan coat, looking piercingly at the camera.

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