![]() As the Black Panther Party’s newspaper editor she’s the information epicenter and adores this position. Geniece discovers this clandestine world of guns, multiple sex partners, FBI surveillance and illicit drugs while balancing her school schedule. It’s the passion, determination and purpose that pull her into the movement. She finds herself drawn to the Black Power Movement that’s come to her college campus particularly after leader Huey Newton’s imprisonment in 1967. She’s working part-time as an after-school teacher and getting good grades. She has a goal to earn a college degree and find a well-paying job. Geniece grew up across the bay in Oakland. Virgin Soul brings us into the movement through the experience of Geniece, an intelligent, determined San Francisco college student, struggling with identity, issues of gender and race and becoming spiritually and intellectually independent. I’ve always been intrigued by the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and particularly the Black Panther Party– fighting the system of oppression and setting up programs to help those who’ve been oppressed (school breakfasts). ![]()
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