The Movement for Change

0:06 - Episode Introduction

1:28 - Hosts Checking In 

2:09 - Jini Palmer at CHOP

9:08 - Perspective of BLM King County Silent March

17:47 - Conversation with Elmer Dixon

41:16 - Meet Aileen Granstrom

44:56 - Host Recap

46:10 - Marcus Harrison Green's Crosscut Excerpt

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Elmer Dixon  was born in Chicago and moved to Seattle at age 7 when his father took a job at Boeing. Dixon grew up in Seattle’s Central District, attending Garfield High School. While at Garfield High, Dixon helped organize the school’s Black Student Union in 1968. That same year, with his older brother Aaron Dixon, he co-founded the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party. He served the Chapter as its Field Marshall as well as the Breakfast Program Coordinator. When the Seattle Chapter closed its office and some of its core members moved to Oakland in 1972, Elmer, under parole and unable to move to Oakland, stayed in Seattle and reorganized the Chapter. He worked to sustain the Party’s breakfast program and health clinic, maintaining the Panther organization until 1976 and some programs into the 1980s. Elmer Dixon now works as a diversity consultant.

Aileen Granstrom  is a Elementary School Associate Teacher in Bellevue, as well as a dance instructor at the University of Washington.  You can find a video version Enrique's piece with Aileen Granstrom HERE 

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Produced In Partnership With :

Town Hall Seattle  (https://townhallseattle.org/)

The South Seattle Emerald  (https://southseattleemerald.com/)

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Executive Producer + Host  // Marcus Harrison Green

Executive Producer + Host // Enrique Cerna

Executive Producer + Host // Jini Palmer

Additional Production Support Provided By // Hans Anderson & JEFFSCOTTSHAW

Music Provided By // Draze "The Hood Ain't The Same" // http://www.thedrazeexperience.com/about-draze/