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This is some powerful looking stuff. Gary Dourdan plays George Jackson, author and Black Panther Party Member. Check out the Wikipedia blurb below.

It’s good to see Gary getting some meatier rolls. It’s an independent film and I can’t seem to get a firm release date. It seems it’s already out in some cities.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, several juvenile convictions resulted in Jackson spending time in the Youth Authority Corrections facility in Paso Robles. Jackson was convicted for stealing $70 at gunpoint from a gas station and was imprisoned as a felon for one year to life at age 18.

While at San Quentin State Prison in 1966, he founded the Black Guerrilla Family, a Marxist prison gang with political objectives. The original goals of the group were to eradicate racism, to maintain dignity in prison and to overthrow the United States government.[citation needed]

On January 16, 1970, along with Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette, he was charged with murdering a guard, John V. Mills, in retaliation for the killing of three black activists by a guard, O.G. Miller, at the California’s Soledad prison (the San Quentin guard had been acquitted after the Grand Jury ruled the killings as justifiable homicide [specify]). He was incarcerated in the maximum-security cellblock at Soledad Prison. Jackson and the other two inmates became known as the “Soledad Brothers.”

Isolated in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, Jackson studied political economy and radical theory and wrote two books, Blood in My Eye and Soledad Brother, which became bestsellers and brought him world-wide attention.

On August 7, 1970, George Jackson’s 17-year-old brother Jonathan burst into a Marin County courtroom with an automatic weapon, freed three San Quentin prisoners and took Judge Harold Haley as a hostage to demand freedom for the three “Soledad Brothers.” However, Haley, prisoners William Christmas and James McClain, and Jonathan Jackson were killed as they attempted to drive away from the courthouse. The case made national headlines.

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Conflicting theories about death

George Jackson or someone in the Center had obtained the pistol from someone[citation needed] . The alternative press and other left-wing commentators postulated that prison officials, with the FBI, had actually given Jackson the gun in order to cause an incident in which he could be eliminated. They alleged that the George Jackson tragedy that had claimed his life and those of five others was all part of a government conspiracy to specifically destroy the Black Panthers and wreck the civil rights movement as a whole.

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