The Black Panthers Search for Truth and Justice Plus Q and A
Tuesday 8 November 7.30pm (food and drinks) Film starts 8pm
Open the Gate Cafe, 35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston N16
Tube: Dalston Junction 10 min from Liverpool Street
Train: Dalston Kingsland 10 min from Stratford
Free Entry: First come, first served
Passing it on.. part indictment, part redemption tale, the film offers startling insight into the role of the Black Panther Party in a social revolution, and the NYPD's and FBI's criminal disruption of one of the organization's most fervent leaders--Dhoruba Bin Wahad . Emerging from the Bronx ghettoes, Dhoruba dived headfirst into the Black Power movement, serving breakfast to school children with one hand while fighting for his rights with the other. Amid a national program of government assassination against the Panthers, Dhoruba was framed on flimsy evidence. 19 years later while sharing a stage with Nelson Mandela, Dhoruba, his attorneys, and other Panthers finally tell this incredible suppressed history of the Panther 21 and of triumph against the odds