Ethel Paris

Ethel will create a documentary, which will include footage shot at the Oakland-based 40th reunion of the Black Panther Party (BPP), about her life in the BPP in the 1960s. Having shared with a researcher her role with the Breakfast for School Children program and later finding her role excluded from the book he had written, Ethel decided to create this documentary to tell her story and that of other women in the BPP. This documentary gives a first hand look at the BPP from a women's perspective through Ethel and her cousin's, Regina Jennings, experience and shows how they became culturally and politically educated through the BPP. Ethel and Regina's story offers young women today possible models and vision to change their communities and know that they are an important part of this change.