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Note: This statement was recorded at Radio Havana in Cuba in 1998 and featured on “All Things Censored: Vol. 1, 1998” by Mumia Abu-Jamal. “The first time I heard a tape of one of Mumia’s radio broadcasts, it was the first time I fully understood why the United States government…
Longtime political prisoner Geronimo Pratt (aka Geronimo Ji Jaga)
The 29th Pan African Film Festival has moved online, taking place Feb. 28–March 14.
This year’s PAFF is screening at least three Black Panther Party-related films: The documentary
Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me and
Judas and the Black Messiah, probably Hollywood’s best political feature in years. The third is a reprise of the 2009 documentary
41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers, which was originally screened at PAFF in 2010 and again in 2017. I am repurposing parts of my 2017 review here:
41st & Central,
which is as exciting as any Hollywood shoot-’em-up, won PAFF’s Audience Favorite Award Documentary in 2010. The documentary was directed by Gregory Everett, son of ex-Panther Jeffrey Everett, who is among the film’s interviewees providing eyewitness accounts, along with Panther icons Kathleen Cleaver, Elaine Brown, Ericka Huggins, and longtime political prisone
'41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers' to be screened Feb. 20 – People's World peoplesworld.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from peoplesworld.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Unfortunately, we must report that we’ve lost a young giant filmmaker in
Gregory Everett who recently passed away as a victim of covid19. Folks, this is a heartbreaking story to write about but I shall attempt to do my best.
I first came to know this young and promising man through the late Roland Freeman as Gregory was in the beginning stages of putting together his award-winning documentary “41st And Central” a project that he literally put his whole soul into that chronicles the history of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Black Panther Party and it’s rise under the leadership of Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter who was eventually gunned down along with John Huggins on the campus of UCLA January 17, 1969.