Apr 11, 2013
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Mary Luana Williams, author of the
newly published 'Lost
Daughter', Jane
Fonda's adopted daughter speaks here for KGNU with Claudia Cragg.
Williams grew up with the
Black Panther movement in Oakland, CA. In her early teens she
was raped by a pseudo 'theatrical agent' and subsequently adopted
by Fonda taking her out of Oakland and the Panther
community.
She now works extensively with
foundations for 'Lost
Boys' in Morocco, the Sudan and Tanzania, in many ways working
the same principles she learned from her mother. This conversation
does not focus at all on 'celebrity issues', but instead on
politics, race and gender and also on Ms. Fonda's gamut of
political passions. Ms. Williams has also been making strenuous
attempts to re-connect her life through time spent with her
extended birth family most of whom have remained in
Oakland.