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  • ‘Black Against Empire’ Discussion Series | Maywood (Part 2)

    Maywood Public Library 121 S. 5th Avenue, Maywood, IL, United States

    This is the second part of a three-part discussion series that the Maywood Public Library will host on the One Book, One Proviso selection from September through November.  

  • ‘The Murder of Fred Hampton’ Screening

    This is the last of two screenings the Maywood Public Library will present of the documentary “The Murder of Fred Hampton.”  Writing in the New York Times, critic A.H. Weiler called this 1971 documentary “a disturbingly somber illustration of some of the ills that beset us and our social system,” and “an unleavened indictment of Edward V. Hanrahan, the Illinois State’s Attorney, the policemen in …

  • ‘Black Against Empire’ Discussion Series | Maywood (Part 3)

    Maywood Public Library 121 S. 5th Avenue, Maywood, IL, United States

    This is the final part of a three-part discussion series that the Maywood Public Library will host on the One Book, One Proviso selection from September through November. 

  • Screening of ‘The Angola 3

    Maywood Public Library 121 S. 5th Avenue, Maywood, IL, United States

    This is the first of two screenings of the documentary “The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation” by the Maywood Public Library.  From snagfilms.com: "THE ANGOLA 3: BLACK PANTHERS AND THE LAST SLAVE PLANTATION tells the gripping story of Robert King Wilkerson, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer then any known living prisoner in the United …

  • Screening of ‘The Angola 3’

    Maywood Public Library 121 S. 5th Avenue, Maywood, IL, United States

    This is the first of two screenings of the documentary “The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation” by the Maywood Public Library.  From snagfilms.com: “THE ANGOLA 3: BLACK PANTHERS AND THE LAST SLAVE PLANTATION tells the gripping story of Robert King Wilkerson, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer then any known living prisoner in the United States. …