In the Land of the Free. Plus Q and A with director
www.BlackHistoryWalks.co.uk in association with Kush Films 07961 977 749 www.kushfilms.com
Tuesday 25 May 7.30pm doors open, 8.00pm films starts
West Green Learning Centre, 268 West Green Road, Tottenham, N15 3RB
Tube: Seven Sisters/Turnpike Lane. Bus 41,67,230,341
Admission: £6.00
Narrated by Samuel L Jackson, this film is about Black Panthers unfairly locked up for 37 years in Angola, the biggest prison in America,where organised rape gangs were just one of the methods of control. Built on the site of a former slave plantation, the 1,800-acre site holds more 5,000 prisoners, Angola took its name from the homeland of the enslaved people who used to work its fields, and still resembles a slave plantation today. Eighty per cent of the prisoners are African-Americans and, under the eyes of armed guards on horseback, they still work fields of sugar cane, cotton and corn, for up to 16 hours a day. The Black Panthers challenged this system.