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Salute To The Freeman Brothers! Last Testament of Elder Freeman, A Giant of a Man
Happily Natural Day
“41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers” is a documentary about the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party, which was only the second chapter created after the Bay Area. The film was shot by Panther cub Gregory Everett, whose father, former Panther Jeffrey Everett, also appears in the film.It gets its name from a five-hour shootout that the LAPD initiated against the L.A. Panthers at 41st & Central (MORE)
We Remember: Roland Freeman, Original L.A. Black Panther Dies at 68
Eurweb October 20, 2014
Roland Freeman, an original member of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Party for Self-Defense died Wed., Oct. 15 in New York at the LaGuardia Airport. Freeman was bringing back the ashes of his brother Ronald Freeman, 69, also an original member of the Black Panther Party who had passed away a week before on Oct. 8 from cancer in New York when he had a heart attack and immediately died (MORE)
Elder Ronald and Roland Freeman, presente!
Bay View Newspaper October 30, 2014
Lifelong freedom fighter and field secretary and founding member of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party Ronald Elder Freeman made his transition on Oct. 8, 2014, after a long and valiant battle with cancer. Listen to a special program on Elder Freeman, including the voices of his brother, Roland Freeman, (MORE)
R.I.P. Author and Los Angeles Black Panther Leader Wayne Pharr
Good Black News September 27, 2014
Wayne Pharr, former Black Panther who fought the Los Angeles Police in a historic gun battle in 1969, passed away on September 6, 2014 at age 64. After Pharr and his fellow Panthers defended themselves from the long violent attack by the newly formed LAPD SWAT unit, he became a political prisoner who was exonerated of attempted murder and all other serious offenses. Pharr eventually became a successful realtor in Southern California, a subject of the documentary, “41st and Central”, and most recently authored the (MORE)
Film screening: 41st and Central
Bay View Newspaper March 5, 2013
Join us for this powerful event which will feature a screening of the critically acclaimed film, 41st and Central a documentary by Gregory Everett. Immediately following the film will be a panel discussion with Gregory Everett, Roland Freeman and Wayne Pharr. Yale Professor and former Black Panther Party member, Kathleen Cleaver will deliver the event keynote address. A live and (MORE)
Review" '41st & Central:The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers
Bay View Newspaper March 5, 2013
“41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers” is a documentary about the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party, which was only the second chapter created after the Bay Area. The film was shot by Panther cub Gregory Everett, whose father, former Panther Jeffrey Everett, also appears in the film.It gets its name from a five-hour shootout that the LAPD initiated against the L.A. Panthers at 41st & Central (MORE)
Archives Bazaar Program Preview: "41st & Central"
USC Libraries October 5, 2011
Using exclusive interviews with former Black Panther Party members along with archival footage, “41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers” delivers what Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry called “a thought-provoking look at the events that shaped our community.” The film follows the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense from its Black Power beginnings through to its (MORE)
41st & Central: The Untold Story of the Black Panthers
Los Angeles Times Pressmens February 19, 2013
Following the manhunt and death of Christopher Dorner, Award-winning documentary chronicling the LAPDs relationship with Blacks in Los Angeles gets special screening the acclaimed award-winning indie documentary about the Los Angeles Police Department and the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense 41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers will screen at the (MORE)
Elmer G. Pratt, Jailed Panther Leader, Dies at 63
New York Times June 3, 2011
Elmer G. Pratt, a Black Panther leader who was imprisoned for 27 years for murder and whose marathon fight to prove he had been framed attracted support from civil rights groups and led to the overturning of his conviction, died on Thursday in a village in Tanzania, where he was living. He was 63.Mr. Pratt, who was widely known by his Panther name, Geronimo ji-Jaga, had high blood pressure and other ailments, his longtime lawyer, Stuart Hanlon, said. Mr. Hanlon said he did not know the exact cause of death (MORE)
Policing Revolution
L.A. Times Magazine April 8, 2011
It was early—way too early as far as he was concerned—on December 8, 1969, when Wayne Pharr was abruptly awakened in the gunroom of the Black Panthers’ Los Angeles headquarters at 41st and Central. The shotgun was still in his hand from when he had fallen asleep while cleaning it. He had spent most of the night exploring the sewers—mapping the nearby tunnels they would use as an escape route in case something went (MORE)
41st & Central, 1969- The Black Panther Shoot Out & The Birth Of S.W.A.T.
Witness L.A. April 6, 2011
On December 9, 1969, a four-hour shootout took place at the Southern California Headquarters of the Black Panther Party. The massive exchange of gunfire was between a cluster of six Panther members who happened to be inside the headquarters and what would ultimately grown to be a force of 200 Los Angeles police officers, including a newly created LAPD team that would have its first real outing on that day (MORE)
"41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers"
Tiffany B. Brown July 17, 2010
I attended a screening of 41st & Central last night, as part of the National Black Arts Festival. It’s a quite moving documentary about the rise of the Los Angeles branch of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, especially its founder, Bunchy Carter. Filmmaker Gregory Everett did a marvelous job of contextualizing the movement as an outgrowth of westward black migration to escape Jim Crow, a response to white brutality towards these newcomers, and resistance of Gestapo-like LAPD police tactics. (MORE)
Another Side of the Sixties: Black Panthers at UCLA (Photos)
The Huffington Post May 25, 2010
UCLA has seen many battles between the students and the administration that have played out over the years, including fee increases, affirmative action and free speech, but never has a struggle been kept so quiet and never has a struggle resulted in death as it did on the UCLA campus over forty years ago. Knowing just this - that college students literally bled and died on campus in a malicious and horrifying act of violence - one would assume that there would be some sort of historical marker commemorating the event. (MORE)
Southern California Black Panthers Tell Their Stories in A New Documentary
The Huffington Post April 17, 2010
Director Gregory Everett didn't know his father growing up. But he did know that he had been a Black Panther. Everett would sometimes mention that when he wanted kids to back off on the playground. And they did. In 2001 Everett reconciled with his father, and began to work in earnest on a film about him and the other members of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party. The result is 41st and Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Panthers . A festival version of the project premieres Monday, February 15th at the Pan African (MORE)
Photos: Award Winning Documentary Celebrates Limited Engagement at CUlver Plaza
Theatres Los Angeles- Eurweb March 31, 2010
Los Angeles, CA — On Saturday, Mar. 28, the Pan African Film & Arts Festival (PAFF) hosted a special screening of the award-winning documentary “41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers” at the Culver Plaza Theatres in Culver City, CA. The screening was in celebration of the film’s limited engagement at the Culver Plaza Theatres Mar. 26 through Apr. 1 as part of the PAFF’s ENCORE program. “41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers,” winner of the 2010 PAFF Audience Favorite Documentary, (MORE)
Interview with Bernie Morris
Los Angeles Sentinel March 28, 2010
On Friday, Mar. 26, 41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers will open for a limited engagement as part of the Pan African Film & Arts Festival's Encore Program at the Culver Plaza Theatres in Los Angeles. Bernie Morris, 76, the oldest of ten siblings that included Alprentice “Bunchy Carter, former leader of Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense who was murdered (MORE)
41st & Central: A Must-See Documentary
The Colored Boy March 28, 2010
I am just arriving home after my first viewing (of potentially three) of the long-overdue 41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers. To say that I am overwhelmed is an understatement. I discovered this documentary via producer and activist Jasmyne Cannick's mention via Twitter. Upon further investigation, I happened upon thetrailer, as well as the film's history. 41st & Central was first featured as part of (MORE)
41st and Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers
Uprising with Sonali March 24, 2010
In the 1940s, the grandchildren of slaves began migrating from southern states to Los Angeles in search of a refuge from racism, only to be greeted by more racism. With crosses burning in Inglewood and Culver city as late as the 1960s, and a militant police force led by Chief William Parker that drew support from the FBI and recruited officers from the South, Los Angeles was not the bastion of freedom African Americans had hoped it would be. Enter the Black Panthers. 41st and Central, a new documentary written, produced, and (MORE)
LAPD's Black Police Officers Assoc. Weighs in on New Black Panther Documentary
Eurweb March 20, 2010
L.A.P.D. Sgt. Ronnie Cato, President of the Oscar Joel Bryant Foundation, the Department’s Black personnel organization, issued the following statement regarding the new documentary 41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers: “41st & Central: The Untold Story of The L.A. Black Panther Party speaks to the heart of the many years of police brutality and poverty which lead to a Black movement,” said Sgt. Cato. (MORE)
41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers PAFF Centerpiece Film
Jasmyne Official Websit February 7, 2010
The Pan African Film and Arts Festival (PAFF), America’s largest and most prestigious Black film and arts festival, has announced feature documentary “41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers” as their Centerpiece Presentation. The feature screening will take place on Monday, February 15 at 3:30 p.m. at the Culver Plaza Theatre (9919 Washington Boulevard L.A.). Tickets are $30 and include a panel (MORE)
Black Panthers to Gather to Commemorate 'Victory' at 41st & Central
LA Beez December 8, 2009
ILocal members will mark 40th Anniversary of the four-hour shootout that 'was a highlight of the struggle' according to one account. Dec. 8, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the Los Angeles Police Department's shootout at the Southern California Black Panther Party's headquarters. Local members of the party will honor those who survived the altercation with a program at 6 p.m. at the Southern California Library for (MORE)
L.A. Black Panthers Gather for Screening of New Film
Los Angeles Sentinel March 26, 2009
Former members of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense gathered in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, for a screening of "41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers," a new film from filmmaker Gregory Everett who is the son of a Black Panther. Held at the Lucy Florence Coffeehouse and Cultural Center on Saturday, March 21, 2009 for a standing room only audience, attendees included (MORE)
LA People 2009: Stalking the Panthers — Gregory Everett
L.A. Weekly April 22, 2009
It was months before the ’92 riots and Gregory Everett was upset. The estranged son of a Black Panther, Everett was attending a community meeting in South Los Angeles organized by a collection of old-time Pan-Africanists. It was the first such meeting Everett had ever attended, and he expected righteous indignation and searing radicalism. Instead, the men were trying to raise money to provide solar panels for a small village in Africa. (MORE)