In Anwesenheit der Regisseurin Shola Lynch!
Young college professor Angela Davis joins the Communist Party, protests with the Black Panthers, and becomes a principle spokesperson for the burgeoning prison reform movement. As a result, she finds herself fighting to keep her job. In the national media spotlight, she is characterized by her many detractors as a dangerous subversive menace and by her supporters as a strong leader challenging authority and boldly advocating for “Power to All People.”
On August 7th, 1970 Davis is implicated in the politically motivated kidnapping and murder of a judge in a brazen daylight shootout at the Marin County, CA courthouse. Davis flees California, convinced she will not be given a fair trial, and is placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. Two months later she is captured in New York City. Charged with murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy, Davis is put on trial in one of the most sensational court cases of its time.
Q&A with director
Shola Lynch after the screening
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
USA/France, 2012, 102 minutes
Dir. Shola Lynch
Presented as part of the event series
Black Solidarity in a Global Context, in collaboration with Rosa- Luxemburg-Stiftung—New York Office.
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