KING speaks about the Angola 3

Robert King Wilkerson the only free memeber of the "Angola Three", speaks with Golden Heart Media's Julia West and Kate Roberts.
King and the two co-founders of the Angola chapter of the Black Panther Party who are still incarcerated (Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace), comprise the Angola 3. Much has been written about these men via grass roots efforts to bring awaremeness about the inhumane torture of prisoners in Anglola state prison and prisons around the country. Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace to date (2009])are the longest-held prisoners in solitary isolation (or closed cell restriction) in the United States. The Angola 3 have a civil suit pending (Wilkerson, Woodfox and Wallace vs The State of Louisiana et al.), a case which the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled has merit to proceed, based on claims that their 'solitary isolation' is a violation of the Eighth Amendment of their rights against "cruel and unusual punishment" under the United States Constitution. This civil suit will go to trial any month in Baton Rouge, at the U.S. Middle District Court.
Robert King has been featured in numerous print, media and film articles and interviews worldwide including: CNN, National Public Radio, NBC, BBC and ITN as well as two films Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation and Land of the Free among many others.
His autobiography " From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of a Black Panther" was released by PM Press in the fall of 2008. He won a PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for his book in 2009. King now makes a type of pralines, which he calls freelines, to support his activism. He made pralines in prison while in solitary confinement. He burned paper in soda cans to cook the candies and gathered ingredients from other prisoners and guards.The story of his candy making has become the most requested story that the Kitchen Sisters have ever produced for N.P.R. It is still played on stations all across the U.S.
Following the destruction that beset the city of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, King pitched in when Scott Crow and Malik Rahim began organizing the Common Ground Collective. He is an international speaker who speaks at college campuses and community centers across the U.S. and has spoken before the Parliaments in the Netherlands, South Africa and Portugal. please visit kingsfreelines.com and order his candy, it's OUTSTANDING!!!!

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[goldenheartmedia]

@afrocentric23 It seems to be working on my end. A least right now.

[afrocentric23]

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