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2021 Pan African Film Festival: A Fine Collection of Black Cinema By Dwight Brown, NNPA Syndication Film Critic Published March 11, 2021 Movie fans attending the 29th PAFF could watch its choice programming on a streaming app or computers, versus making the annual pilgrimage to Los Angeles. The setting is different, but the usual array of international African diaspora films is still impressive. Check out these four festival films that are on view from February 24 to March 14 at paff.org and in theaters near you in the future. “41st & Central: The Untold Story of The L.A. Black Panthers” ...

Longtime political prisoner Geronimo Pratt (aka Geronimo Ji Jaga) The 29th Pan African Film Festival has moved online, taking place Feb. 28–March 14. This year’s PAFF is screening at least three Black Panther Party-related films: The documentary Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me and Judas and the Black Messiah, probably Hollywood’s best political feature in years. The third is a reprise of the 2009 documentary 41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers, which was originally screened at PAFF in 2010 and again in 2017. I am repurposing parts of my 2017 review h...

okayafrica New York, April 11, 1969. The demonstration was about the 'Panther 21' trial, over jailed Black Panther members accused of shooting at police stations and a bombing; all of whom were eventually acquitted. Visible in the background at right is the New York County Criminal Court. Pan African Film Festival Set to Screen Black Panther Documentary The Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival has announced that it will screen the late Gregory Everett's Black Panther documentary '41st and Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers'. The 29th Pan African Film Festival (PAFF...

*Unfortunately, we must report that we’ve lost a young giant filmmaker in Gregory Everett who recently passed away as a victim of covid19. Folks, this is a heartbreaking story to write about but I shall attempt to do my best. I first came to know this young and promising man through the late Roland Freeman as Gregory was in the beginning stages of putting together his award-winning documentary “41st And Central” a project that he literally put his whole soul into that chronicles the history of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Black Panther Party and it’s rise under the leadership of Al...

maryland and also to the shenandoah valley. everything is washed down. people don't realize storm drains in the street do not get filtered through the sewage plant. storm drains in the street are directly into the creeks and the river. so anytime anything is in the street it goes right down in the potomac. >> reporter: back live taking a look at the big pile of debris that's at the thomas both center. there are bottles. unmentionables in all that stuff. it is really disgusting. mr. schaefer does not want to go into the water to get people. he is concerned about his health. another in...