Amy Goodman
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Part 1: Members of Angola 3 on Black Panther Legacy & Need to Free Remaining Imprisoned Panthers
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8:42Now PlayingFifty years after the founding of the Black Panther Party, we focus on an overlooked part of its historypolitical prisoners. Many former members are still held in prison based on tortured confessions, while others were convicted based on questionable evidence or the testimony of government informants. We host an historic roundtable with four former Black Panthers who served decades in prison, beginning with two former members of the Angola Three who formed one of the first Black Panther chapters in a prison. Robert King spent 32 years in Angola29 of them in solitary confinement. He was released in 2001 after his conviction was overturned. Albert Woodfox, until February of this year, was the longeststanding solitary confinement prisoner in the United States. He was held in isolation in a sixbyninefoot cell almost continuously for 43 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola prison. He was released on his 69th birthday. We spoke with him two days later, and I asked him how it felt to be free.
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