Part of the 2022 Cultures & Communities Festival, sponsored by Kohl's!
This double feature of two shorter documentaries - TAKEOVER, which explores the Young Lords' 1970 takeover of a South Bronx hospital, and AMERICAN JUSTICE ON TRIAL, which traces the culmination of Black Panthers founder Huey Newton's murder trial in Oakland - illuminates two historic moments of resistance in and of the Black Power Era. The screenings will be followed by an extended talkback considering Black and Brown activism then and now.
Community Partners: Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC)
AMERICAN JUSTICE ON TRIAL: In one of the “trials of the century” and with relevance to today, Black Panthers leader Huey P. Newton faced the death penalty for killing a white policeman in a pre-dawn car stop in 1968 Oakland. While Newton and his maverick attorneys boldly indicted racism in the courts and the country, and a groundbreaking jury led by a historic Black foreman deliberated Newton’s fate, the streets of Oakland and the nation were set to explode if the jury came back with murder.