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Dope is Death


  • maysles documentary center 343 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY, 10027 United States (map)
Mia Donovan, 2021, 82 min

Mia Donovan, 2021, 82 min

DOPE IS DEATH is the story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 - a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist in America.


Q&A with filmmaker Mia Donovan and film subjects Cleo Silvers and Walter Bosque.


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Friday May 7th at sunset, approximately 8PM EDT, for a Sidewalk Cinema screening of DOPE IS DEATH at Maysles Documentary Center !