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15th Annual Black Panther Party Film Festival: Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama
Saturday, September 30 at 4PM
Tickets: $15 General Admission/$7 Reduced Price 

Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama
A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation
C.A. Griffith & H.L.T. Quan, 2009, 97 min.

Thirteen years, two radical activist all-stars-one conversation. Internationally renowned scholar, professor and writer Angela Davis and 89-year-old grassroots organizer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Yuri Kochiyama spent over a decade conversing intimately about personal histories and influences that shaped them and their overlapping experiences.

Mountains That Take Wing offers the gift of these two remarkable women’s lives, sharing the pair’s recorded exchanges in 1996 and 2008. The film’s unique format honors the scope and depth of their knowledge on topics ranging from Jim Crow laws and Japanese American internment camps, to Civil Rights, anti-war, women’s and gay liberation movements, to today’s campaigns for political prisoners and prison reform. Intercut with compelling period footage, Davis and Kochiyama’s cogent observations, keen analyses, and steadfast resolve to create a more equitable, humane world offer inspiring lessons in empowerment and community building for current and future generations.

Preceded by:

Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party and Kimberly Cox Marshall Promo Video

Post-screening discussion with Rosemarie Mealy and Ksisay Hilton, moderated by King Downing.