A BLACK HISTORY EVENT: FILM SHOWING & BOOK LAUNCH

JOINTLY ORGANISED BY BLACK HISTORY WALKS & WOMEN OF COLOUR GLOBAL WOMEN’S STRIKE

FILM: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
BOOK LAUNCH: Jailhouse lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v the USA, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
featured speaker: Selma James who edited & introduced the UK edition

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975:

Award-winning documentary, by Goran Hugo Olsson, co-produced by Danny Glover, compiled from footage of the US Black Power Movement hidden in Swedish archives for 30 years.

It “fills in the background of the Vietnam War, police brutality, and enduring and largely unaddressed racism, to suggest a sense of survivalist urgency—and to hint at why filmmakers took such care to record it.” New Yorker

Includes appearances and commentary by: Harry Belafonte, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, Robin Kelley, Dr. Martin Luther King, Talib Kweli, Huey P. Newton, Abiodun Oyewole, Sonia Sanchez, Bobby Seale.

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Black History Walks info@blackhistorywalks.co.uk   www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

BOOK LAUNCH Jailhouse lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v the USA, the acclaimed new book by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Black Panther, journalist and political prisoner who recently succeeded in overturning the death penalty sentence against him. featured speaker: Selma James who edited & introduced the book
Jailhouse Lawyers speaks for the creative and determined movement of prisoners who use the law against the racist legal establishment. It is published just as US prisoners are on hunger strike against prisons as concentration camps of repression, humiliation and other injustice. Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted in 1982 of killing a policeman in a trial drenched in racism. Throughout the nearly 30 years he spent on death row he spoke against injustice, and organised for his freedom and for that of other prisoners. At aged 15 he helped found the Philadelphia chapter of the Panthers becoming lieutenant of information. Interviewed in 2007, he said “We worked seven days a week and 18 hours a day for no pay ... When I tell young people that now, they are like, are you crazy, man? But we wanted to serve our people, free our people, stop the homicide and make revolution. It was a very busy but fulfilling life for thousands of people across the country. We were serving our people and what could be better than that?" His book We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party is distinctive in acknowledging that women made up “60% of the membership”.
To order the book: www.allwomencount.net/publications/forsalepage.htm Crossroads Books, PO Box 287, London NW6 5QU Tel: 020 7482 2496 crossroadsbooks@allwomencount.net