Episode 3: The Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program with John Grant, IV

Did you know that the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program provided grits and eggs for kids in the 70's that inspired our government to provide over 2 BILLION breakfasts for students today?

Sources:

Videos

1. No Kid Hungry Discussion on Free Breakfast Movement

2. 1969 Special Project: Black Panthers Feed the Children

Books

1. Power Hungry Women of the Black Panther Partyand Freedom Summer and their Fight to Feed a Movement by Suzanne Cope

2. To Die for the People by Huey Newton

3. The Black Panther Party: Service to the People edited by David Hilliard by the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation

Articles

1. Breakfast: a Good Habit, not a repetitive custom. In the Journal of International Medical Research. In 2008.

2. Breakfast is most important meal (BBC)

3. Sorry, There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast y Aaron E. Carroll

4. Black Past: Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program (1969-1980)

5. Black History Month: Celebrating the Origins of Free Breakfast and the Food Justice Movement on NoKidHungry.org

6. Fact Sheet on School Breakfast Program by No Kid Hungry

7. Nonviolence Project on Free Breakfast for Children: Nonviolent Legacies of the Black Panther Party

8. The Greenwood Food Blockade by Southern Foodways Alliance

9. African American Intellectual Historic Society: The Black Panther Party and the Free Breakfast for Children Program

10. Solid Ground: Radical History of the Free Breakfast Program

11. Wikipedia: School Breakfast Program