How's this for a resume:
Joined Black Panther Party at age fifteen
Served eleven months in the infamous NY Rikers Island Jail
FBI fugitive
Member of Panther 21, one of the most emblematic criminal cases of the sixties
At sixteen, one of the youngest spokesman and leaders of the Panther's New York Chapter.
Member of the Revolutionary Black Underground
Sentenced to twelve years in Leavenworth
Earned two college degrees while in Leavenworth and founded a prison theater
Released from Leavenwo...
How's this for a resume:
- Joined Black Panther Party at age fifteen
- Served eleven months in the infamous NY Rikers Island Jail
- FBI fugitive
- Member of Panther 21, one of the most emblematic criminal cases of the sixties
- At sixteen, one of the youngest spokesman and leaders of the Panther's New York Chapter.
- Member of the Revolutionary Black Underground
- Sentenced to twelve years in Leavenworth
- Earned two college degrees while in Leavenworth and founded a prison theater
- Released from Leavenworth
- Becomes full professor and Chair of Columbia University's School of the Arts Film Program
- Nominated for 2008 Academy Award in Best Song category
- Publishes memoir Panther Baby
My conversation with Jamal Joseph:
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