Of baltimore book festival continues with a history professor spencer on the black part but black Panther Party from california. [inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thanks for coming welcome to the book fair pavilion things to everyone for coming summit you have heard the spiels already but to mnuchin day couple of things with a cooperative bookstore and coffeehouse at about 14 years at the Current Location with that pavilion with the baltimore book festival over the last decade it has been an exciting opportunity in the midst of the city to marginalizes histories and forgotten narratives and that is what we are here for it is exciting the past couple years due to the resurgence of political activity from grassroots that generated a further interest of the precursor. The black pamper party specifically founded in oakland 1966 with Inspirational Organization that that would be prebe easily discredited and to say those that criticize where those bands of the black panthers dependin
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[drums playing] [applause] [drums playing]. [drums playing]. [drums playing]. [cheering] [applause] thank you, thank you to the African Dance company and the children and junior company, that opened the way for us and for this evening. We like to thank macie and joseph who were the dance and drums instructors, thank you. [applause] my name is Sandra Bradley and im extending a warm welcome to everyone on behalf of van gogh videos and books. We all know in the language of ghana it means go back and fetch, reminding us not to forget our history and culture so we are proud that video and books is a sponsor for tonight and we want to thank them for 20 years for creating a space where we can gather, a space where we can strategize, a place where we can immerse ourselves in history and culture, get knowledge, curate events and thank you to the family for sacrificing a lot to create a space of the liberation , and shes a shy woman but the rima is right here. [applause] 20 years is no joke, 20
Health care clinics. Today we focus on an overlooked part of the panthers legacy, Political Prisoners. We will feature interviews with panthers who originally were convicted after tortured confessions. In 1973 in new orleans, herself and john bowman and ruben scott was arrested in new orleans by the Police Department. Place wheren the we were arrested, they took us to jail. Immediately, they started beating us. Amy in a historic round table we will be joined by four former black panthers who are held in prison for decades before winning the release. In his First National broadcast interview, we will speak with sekou odinga, who helped build the black Panther Party in new york city from a later involved in the black liberation army. We will speak with eddie conway, released from prison in 2014 after serving 44 years behind bars. And we will speak with two members of the angola 3 who formed one of the first black panther chapters in prison, robert king and Albert Woodfox. When he was in
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