Screening of ‘The Angola 3’

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. … Continue reading Screening of ‘The Angola 3’

Screening of ‘The Angola 3

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 … Continue reading Screening of ‘The Angola 3

‘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 … Continue reading ‘The Murder of Fred Hampton’ Screening