Occupation: Director Birth: June 7, 1951
Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'.
When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law..
As the voices beneath the music are talking, you find that the music is just as important as what they're saying. The traditional thing is to lower t….
Part of the problem with Occupy Wall Street was that folks were never really clear on what they were fighting for. If you don't know what you're figh….
Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms..
One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church." It's ….
Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted..
People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women..
There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability..
I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives..
Instead of feeling like there's two or three of us in this town of hostile crackers, I'm in a big church filled with people who believe the same thin….
Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But one of the things you learn….
As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. Then there's a backl….
You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mist….