On the fourth of July at BAM as part as their Contraband Film Series on Sun, Jul 4 at 7:15pm: join Kathleen Cleaver (Emory Law School professor, author, and former Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party) and curator Kazembe Balagun for a Q&A following a screening of William Klein’s documentary Eldridge Cleaver.

Eldridge Cleaver
Directed by William Klein

Under pressure from FBI’s counterintelligence program, Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and his wife Kathleen left the United States for Algeria. There, he set up the International Section of the Black Panther Party which quickly became the hangout of revolutionaries from the Vietnamese and African liberation movements. Klein’s moving interview follows up with Cleaver during the Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers, where he expounds upon the Vietnam War and Black Power during a time when “revolution was the main theme of the day.”