“Being hungry is the hardest thing, & to this day I have prayers of gratitude for the Black Panthers, who made Breakfast for Children a thing that schools should do. We qualified for free lunch & breakfast, & without them I am almost sure we wouldn't have made it out of childhood alive despite my hardworking parents.” ― Patrisse Khan-Cullors, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. What the Black Panthers are known for is so widely varying and absolutely and truly revolutionary for what they were able to accomplish to Patrisse Khan-Cullors it was the Free Breakfast program. The free Breakfast program is the definition of positive and effective need-based community programming and a solid stance on the effectiveness of government assistance and selectiveness of the aid that goes to communities in need in comparison to the communities that are acknowledged as in need, frequently cutting out black communities. And yet the Black Panthers alike the themes Khan-Cullors talks about – were labeled terrorists.
