{"id":64812,"date":"2013-02-12T15:44:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2013\/02\/12\/poster-for-shola-lynchs-free-angela-all-political-prisoners\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T09:38:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T09:38:34","slug":"poster-for-shola-lynchs-free-angela-all-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/poster-for-shola-lynchs-free-angela-all-political-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Poster for Shola Lynch\u2019s Free Angela & All Political Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poster for Shola Lynch<\/a>\u2019s Free Angela & All Political Prisoners<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

February 12, 2013<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the latest poster to Shola Lynch<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s documentary \u201cFree Angela & All Political Prisoners<\/strong>,\u201d which will open on April 5 at AMC locations in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., Oakland, Philadelphia and Atlanta<\/p>\n

The film details the turbulent life of radical activist Angela Davis<\/strong>, a member of the Communist Party, associate of the Black Panthers and UCLA philosophy professor who was charged in 1970 with conspiracy in kidnapping and murdering Judge Harold Haley from the Marin County courthouse.<\/p>\n

Built around new interviews with Davis, the film recounts her Alabama upbringing, her studies in the U.S. and Europe, and the start of her academic career in the philosophy department at UCLA, where she quickly drew fire for her membership in the CP \u2014 which then-governor Ronald Reagan publicly labelled a \u201cprovocation.\u201d (Reagan would later amend this, claiming that what really irked him was Davis\u2019 \u201cunprofessionalism.\u201d) A campaign began to have Davis banned from teaching anywhere in the state. She began receiving death threats, which led her to purchase her first firearm.<\/p>\n

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But Davis\u2019 problems had only just begun: in 1970, she was charged with conspiracy in kidnapping and murder following Jonathan Jackson\u2019s dramatic daylight abduction of Judge Harold Haley from the Marin County courthouse, which ended with Jackson, Haley, and two others dead in a shootout with police. Chronicling Davis\u2019 time in hiding, her eventual arrest and highly publicized trial via archival footage and her own words, this captivating documentary has all the fascination of a crime thriller and a courtroom drama, while touching on contentious issues around racial prejudice, gun control and freedom of speech.<\/p>\n

Codeblack Films will release the film in partnership with BET Networks.<\/p>\n

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