February 14, 2018
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Black Panthers Connected Nutrition To Education Long Before Serving Breakfast in Schools Became Popular
The Black Panther Party of Chicago emerged on the city’s West Side in 1968, according to the Encyclopedia of Chicago. Billy “Che” Brooks, deputy minister of education for the Black Panther Party of Chicago, remembers opening Chicago’s first free breakfast program for children in April of 1969 at the Better Boys Foundation, 1512 S. Pulaski Rd.