“This is an opportunity to remind people of the real heroes of the Black Panthers and the conditions they live in today.”
“They all uplifted people,” said Ericka Huggins, a former Black Panther leader from Oakland.
The Afrofuturist film has sparked renewed calls from attorneys, families and civil rights leaders for the release of more than a dozen incarcerated former members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP), the radical group founded in 1966 in Oakland, California.
After 33 years behind bars, the former Black Panther party leader was released into a United States he didn’t recognize – with strange technology and grandchildren he had never hugged.