This is a warm and wonderful interview with Elaine Brown, the first woman to head up the Black Panther party. In this interview she shares how we all need to find common ground and was one of her earliest lessons. She met Huey Johnson and the Trust for Public Land (TPL) in the 1980’s. Huey approached the Black Panther Party to raise consciousness about the importance of green spaces and stressed that they were missing from the black community in Oakland, California. TPL and Huey worked with the Black Panthers to create green parks, gardens and green spaces in underserved areas in Oakland. Elaine said that they called it, “Gardens in the Ghetto.”  She shares how her current work involves a large urban garden to reduce recidivism in released prisoners. These gardens provide work for prisoners and are a positive step in their reentry to society. She shares the many things that she has learned from Huey Johnson.