Angela Davis and the Soledad Brothers (1971)

Discussing whether blacks can receive true justice in American courts, prisons, or in post-prison life, this special Black Journal episode examines America's judicial system from a black perspective. Entitled, Justice? the presentation will include five segments: 1. The Courts: Legal experts examine the difficulties blacks face in American courts the virtual impossibility of receiving trial by pears; the systems tremendous backlog of cases; lack of money for competent legal assistance; and pressures to accept lesser pleas, among other problems. 2. Prison: In exclusive interviews conducted within the San Quentin and Soledad Prison in California, prisoners talk candidly about their lives in prison the dehumanizing conditions and racial pressures; their reasons for being there often poverty or lack of competent legal assistance; prisons failure to rehabilitate and adequately prepare prisoners for post-prison life; and the problem they face upon release which virtually ensure failure to establish normal, productive lives. 3. Angela Davis: At UCLA, where Angela Davis was ousted as a philosophy instructor, her lawyer, friends and professional associates discuss the events which led to her arrest and her current trial. Miss Davis is charged with murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy to smuggle weapons into the San Rafael (California) Courthouse last August 7 in an alleged attempt to free three black prisoners. The prisoners, known as the Soledad Brothers, were indicted for allegedly killing a prison guard. Miss Davis, now held incommunicado in the Marin County jail in California, appears in film segments made while she was at UCLA. 4. The Jackson Family: Mrs. Lester Jackson, mother of George Jackson, one of the Soledad Brothers and of Jonathan Jackson, who was killed in the alleged prisoner escape attempt, is interviewed along with other relatives, friends, and members of the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee. 5. Soledad Brothers: Lawyers defending the three Soledad Brothers George Jackson, Fiesta Durango and John Clutchette discusses the murder charge and tell why they consider the Soledad Brothers to be political prisoners.

[@kevinharris3993]

Sadly that 50 years after this documentary was done, this documentary is still appropable. The struggle is still going on. The plot has intensified.

[@SethinBerlin]

@ZuluTime Productions Time is relative, especially when you are young. To a 15 year old, 50 years is about 3.3 lifetimes.

[@barbarabeasley364]

That's when black people was tight black people started separating in the eighties cause in the seventies we were close c during that time we had strong men as well they had drugs back then but even the drugs addicts had some sense I was there a grown woman at that time so early eighties they finally found something they keep saying that because they took the fathers off the jobs and give them to the woman ok thats part of it but that crack epidemic in the early eighties destroyed they whole mind and the killing really started of each other but if you look at back then all lived in their black commnities helped each other all poor no body thought they were better even the well to do still got the same treatment as any other black go thru the back door nigga but when they realize we as a people was to close they found some drugs to alternate the separation was very easy to do for the white they still prize Ronald Reagan to day but he's a racist black people got to remember laughing and smiling to your face they the greatest pretenders on the planet elder people know young people don't want listen to us so they suffer

[@enochbengabrieljihadshabaz6654]

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[@enochbengabrieljihadshabaz6654]

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[@g.a.b.4914]

Share this video with as many ppl as you can. This is a very important moment in American Justice, showing the clear lack of equality in justice. George Jackson and the Soledad Brothers were railroaded, Angela Davis was falsely accused, wrongfully terminated , and her character defamed. All for standing up for social and criminal justice.

[@abdullahrasheed1493]

I read about George Jackson and the Soledad brothers and Angela Davis when I was in the military stationed in Germany in the late 1970s. Thanks to my Mother I read a lot of books about our people and our struggles. So I tried to familiarize myself with those Brothers and Sisters on the front lines, especially those that the media refused to tell us anything positive about. I also saw a movie about George Jackson being in prison. I think it was called "Brothers". I was surprised at the films I got to see on the military base. Some years later I purchased a DVD about George Jackson called,"Black August". I tried to shared information threw books and.movies and conversations with my own children when they were growing up. They all went to college/universities and got degrees and each of them have a sense of appreciation for those who came before and also a sense of responsibility to make their own contributions to improve our lot. Btw, during that same period of time I read the "Autobiography of Malcolm X, I read books by Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Dick Gregory and others. I had read both the Bible and the Qur'an before I was twenty years of age. Please take time to read. And teach your children to read. Don't even wait for them to come out of the womb. Read to them while they are in the womb of their Mothers. Believe me it makes a world of a difference. As Imam Warithuddin Mohammed (2933-2008) said, "Man means Mind". And W.E.B. DuBois said, " we will only progress in the measure that we are willing to teach our children to think." In the book of Proverbs in the Bible, it says, " as a man think it in his heart so is he." ALLAH says in the Qur'an, "Think for thinking profits the thinker." So serious reading requires serious thinking. Peace! As Salaamu Alaikum!!

[@sistahraw1553]

Everyone should watch this... Power to the people

[@robinrobinson2354]

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[@sever427]

Power to the people

[@williepipkins497]

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[@Speakonit...333]

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[@faharoon357]

Unreal. Yet quite real. America is truly a Hell.

[@dublinvids5146]

America is heaven for Black people. Obama, Michael Jordan, Kevin Hart, Denzel Washington etc etc.

[@lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597]

Afros are the thing I miss.i miss the people who stood for our rights. Thanks soledads bros, kwame, ahmir ,Huey,bobby, angel are parents for me. Right on!

[@LowellBDennyIII]

Tony Brown was doing some real reporting back when real reporting was allowed. I wonder if this was part of his public television series or something else. Unrelated to this topic but related to his reporting, Brown was one of the very few journalists to interview University of California researcher, Peter Duesberg, in the 80's. Controversially, Duesberg, a National Academy of Sciences member, was in the forefront of questioning the link between HIV and AIDS. But then the narrow field of media of those days got more narrow to what it is today. Maybe it was Reagan's repeal of the Fairness Doctrine?

[@lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597]

Of course it's Regan's fault he couldn't help the real black doctors who can cure the Aids, RIP dr. Sebi and dr. africa.

[@ShiningSta18486]

Operation Mockinbird

[@c.calliecoleman1531]

I feel sorry for this sweet, angel woman, Angela Davis, for all the unnecessary hell she went through, back then. I remember when this happened didn't know she went through all this. I was too young to comprehend the news, but I do remember seeing her picture in the paper, for some charges. All I saw was one beautiful strong black woman, and every around me was saying, Free Angel. She got full support in my city. Her afro really made her look like a powerful queen, and everybody at my school tried making their afro look like hers, the bigger the better. The whole Soledad situation is the saddest cases, that didn't have to go down like that. Had they released George after serving 1yr, on that trumped up sentence. God don't like ugly, and God says a lot, like "Vengeance is Mine, I shall repay", and He says a whole lot of other things, and everything He says He will do, He will do ir.✌🏽❤🙏🏻🌷🌲

[@SouthSideRalph1]

Brothers & Sisters here all speaking intelligently & eloquently!

[@SunGxdRa]

I'm 30 and when I see videos from this time period I always wonder if we have regressed or if they just found the right people to interview.

[@thaman5612]

@@SunGxdRaWe have " Regressed" most definitely.

[@user-kw9wi4op5v]

@@SunGxdRa We've only "regressed" in the sense that the system has effectively suppressed more of us, and taken away more of our resources by nature of capitalist expansion. Despite that, plenty of people failed by the education system have been capable of comprehending complex topics through lived experience, even if they don't use gaudy academic words or sacrificed their diasporic dialects to assimilate into white supremacist hegemony. The idea of intelligence and eloquence is pretty useless in organizing the people, and more often than not, it divides us. Some college kid studying prison abolition will never understand all the intricacies of prison abolition, and so they must go to prisons and listen to the people inside.

[@carlawalker9649]

​@@SunGxdRa I'm 55. On KZbin I listened to an interview with Angela Davis where she warms that change takes decades. I believe we have taken steps forward and been pushed back. The interviewer was British and 5 years old. If my memory is correct, the title had to do with Trump, Feminism, and prison reform...😊

[@carlawalker9649]

Five years "ago"

[@charlieboy501]

I went in san quentin in 1987on a scared straight program at the age of 17 then when to san quentin at the age of 23 for arm robbery i walked that same yard and it gave me a cold feeling and still do while im free

[@billyshepard1881]

One of the Soledad brothers, John Clutchette was just released from prison in 2018 when he was in his 70s. Even though he was acquitted for the murder charge, they used it as a reason to deny him parole three times

[@joedoe7706]

I agree. It is unfortunate that he was released, unless released into his home jungle

[@lifestraight]

He was the sole survivor. Fleeta Drumgo was murdered as well in 1979.

[@randygumby7823]

Long live The Soledad Brothers!!

[@Walter-vi3vh]

Long live Jonathan & George Jackson

[@WhatabouthemTv]

Long live everyone who died for a change including the names we never heard of ..

[@leviticusbarlow9757]

My pops was locked down with them " fly" I remember that damn wall when u go visit. We love all y'all. Real Soldiers

[@itzenormous]

The brother speaking at 10:00 doesn't "get it." Unfortunately, there are still many among us, today, of a similar mindset.

[@melvinhhcp3615]

Thank you for posting this.

[@islamicchronicles5381]

AS SALAMU ALAIKUM, " STOP TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK.I NEED BOTH SIDES OF MY FACE." ( COMRADE GEORGE JACKSON - FIELD MARSHAL BLACK PANTHER PARTY )

[@kareemhasan9811]

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[@ROBBSTAR76]

One of my hero's from the soledad brothers...George Jackson.One of the strongest psychically and mentally I have ever read about !!!!! 💪💪💪🤟

[@anthonysmall5090]

I'm sure you know that some people will never read the book

[@ROBBSTAR76]

Plenty won't read it.as long as u have read it ..that's what counts

[@c.calliecoleman1531]

One thing I couldn't understand why they wouldn't release George Jackson, after one yr at least on that trumped up charge, I know one thing they were wanting was to change his mind, to bow down to them. But what was so sad in listening to the audio prison letters, and hearing such intellectual words George was using I was thinking this was one man that would've made one of the best lawyers, and they kept him from his calling. I really love George Jackson, and don't like what they did to this fine young man. But I feel, even now, George Jackson name is being discussed, and future lawyers are learning from cases like this. He won't be forgotten, and his name will get cleared, and some will apologize to his family, because they know they were WRONG.

[@maatx4027]

✊🏿❤ I love you mi gente we will be free as soon as we demand it! Ase o. Peace to the powerful Black people.

[@joedoe7706]

If you're in America, you're already free.....well unless you're a trump supporter

[@jerrybarnes365]

THE SOLODAD BROTHERS ARE HEROES!

[@CholaConCello]

Kendra and Franklin Alexander ¡PRESENTE! ✊🏽

[@lifestraight]

Brilliant answer by the woman and the follow up by the young man as well 6:33

[@Hamter342]

Big U brought me here

[@emmanuelperilla2014]

Yes!

[@user-bs8hm6bq3e]

These were hard times that is still going on America prisons and treatment is happening today this may be 50 years ago but this is the time to stop it

[@HaroldWright_09]

Angela Davis is one of the most heroic people, I think, in recent history. She still gets a whole lot of hate and stuff about her being a murderer but all you have to do is open your bloody eyes and take a look outside. Everywhere, but especially America, Black people are constantly treated terribly and cruelly by high, and low members of society and are put in prison for ridiculous reasons and problems. Angela Davis was a trooper and a hero. Long live Angela Davis and her campaign!

[@erics362]

Do you have any films about Joanne Chesimard?

[@AfroMarxist]

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[@ashebermulugata9]

Endlessly marking time. 50 plus years hence and compare the mindset of Afrikan People in and out of the penitentiary shitsym.

[@VICAPONE]

All power to the people

[@kingofthecatnap5422]

Just found your channel. Subscribed. Many people are very interested in the resurrection of NAARPR. Is there a central location where we can join/ support? We need this to grow! Thank you!

[@AfroMarxist]

[e-mail] naarpr.org/ You can check the website link above or you can send all questions to the email above

[@AfroMarxist]

@Zanda Williams Go to my main page, I have sections organized specifically for the Panthers also in the Playlist section I'm working on organizing it based on individuals as well

[@dw.baltimore]

🖤

[@rahsunallah2825]

Thank you ✊

[@antgrantrant]

21:35 if you're looking for a concise explanation of what the Soledad brothers were charged for. Prepare for some top tier bullshit

[@MountainGoddess314]

Just saw Angela Davis just learned, her Ancestors were 1 on the 101 Pilgrims that came to America on the Mayflower, due to Religious persecution.

[@abushabazz9658]

islam i was 24 back 1971 my first born was bron in 1971 i have been all of marylands prison 5 of feds penitertiary, lorton dc prison, been out these last 14yrs in baltimore, i was in prison at the age of 17 and when you was feed 3 pieces of bread in the hold... what is being is so true and much is still gone on today 2020' may uncl G .''JACKSON rest in peace ISLAM

[@ThatTV1]

Now they have over 30 prisons 😮

[@joedoe7706]

Not enough, considering all the thugs there are

[@lifestraight]

Very eloquent brother 10:10 Socialism 10:55

[@robertpundsack1363]

Angela Davis got what she deserves. She brought it upon herself. no one to look up to.

[@rahmit47]

Well after the civil war there has always been the question among Americas whites ,"What do we do with these slaves". This is the result of that question.WS is the issue and the injustice it represents is the result.

[@knucklegame5050]

And FREE ASSATA✊🏾✊🏾

[@wyattandres69]

If anyone educated can let me know My issue is I am white and I feel my voice is not even valid in this discussion and movement because there are people affected that could and do speak better than me. That does not stop me from wanting to help! I want to help be a part of change rather than sit on the sidelines and be complacent like my ancestors I need to not only not contribute to the issue but not pushing against injustice is the same as supporting it What can I do as a white male to be a part of the movement we need like BLM and not be doing the wrong thing? Is my body enough at the demonstrations? As a business owner I do my best to give more power to my employees and empower them in as many ways as I can in a capitalist society.. but there is so much more I can do. I already donate to Support these things as well but what can I do to further the movement of solidarity for my fellow humans

[@jerrybarnes365]

Your RIGHT!; You are pale and white and your opinion is NOT RELEVANT because you are ant-truth and would twist and turn the truth to make it seem like these innocent black men (who have done nothing to anyone) are the enemies and that those RACIST DEMONIC WHITE GARBAGE PRISON!!!

[@damurobins5234]

Your voice can't be valid in a plight u really don't overstand. The best way as a white man to contribute to the upliftment of the African race is to not be besides or vocal to us but to be aggressively educational to your people continuously informative so that the mindset n morals of your people is allowed to transform into that of humane humans..

[@princewilliams1632]

Angela Davis and the Soledad Brothers, April 26th, 1971 documentary - Justice?

[@leviticusbarlow2618]

Johnathan Peter Jackson

[@cedricliggins7528]

47:00

[@allenfaulkner9697]

Wish they would

[@jimmydivirgilio4616]

Angela Davis = GOD

[@EastOfATL]

Now dat we kicked off da year in General Fred Hampton Sr mode ya digg👑✊🏽Iss batt time Queen 👸🏽 Angela Davis get ha just do witta official Documentary or Film 🎥 @ da Movies 2💯☝🏽💪🏽👌🏽💐🌟❤️

[@rahmit47]

Escape to where?

[@arricammarques1955]

When America enforces racial incarceration society imprisoned with injustice.

[@allenfaulkner9697]

Institutional racism,that is such a cop out

[@dw.baltimore]

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[@gypsy9014]

🤌🏾ThankYuAngelaDavis.

[@lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597]

You better make way for the young folks-jackson five!

[@valeriebwilliams701]

Correct Kevin. Dr A. Davis big hair was frowned upon intimidating to others. Maybe so but that's what we were born with. I truly believe that The Panthers & Dr. Davis Kept their bodies & hair clean! 2023 my prayer is all who are wearing big hair, long braids etc will practice daily hygiene of their bodies & hair. Let's not 4get Covid...the last thing the world needs is heads full of lice- etc!

[@joedoe7706]

Smh 🙄 as if her hair was the problem. The communist agenda and trying to help murderers was the problem

[@ScottishT.Warriorman]

How was/is Marxism a beneficial philosophy for anyone? You cannot make something equal that isn't equal! I have a question(?). If groups like the B.L.M. truly cared about the Black/Hispanic communities, then why didn't they utilize their time and financial gains to help those communities excel in business, education, community, etc. How about ridding your communities of drug dealers, gangs, pimps/prostitutes, porn outlets, alcohol establishments, etc. Each race has a right to stand and defend themselves, as well as promote their own ideas and thoughts. Yeah' each folk has its own distinctive issues to deal with.

[@SkepticalMantisCHANNEL10]

37:20

[@allenfaulkner9697]

Always.playing the victim

[@phillipferdinand4748]

Ni

[@nellekzer7148]

15:00

[@giohvanydesamo9818]

The most dangerous light skinned Nigga of all time RIP

[@isisbeck2374]

Not a nigga

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[@Artchick1972]

they were murders

[@salmansadeq1167]

Yes, the cops did murder those hostages.

[@pinkforeverlove1]

Our government assassinated prominent black figures and admitted to it, what do you have to say about that?

[@isisbeck2374]

Yes you're right pigs 🐖 are stone cold set up artist. FTP

[@isisbeck2374]

Beootch i see your a racist and a killer

[@VICAPONE]

Long live the revolution