angela davis sort of re-articulated that warning in the reading for today. that becomes the basis for black lives matter, the major social movement irruption in the last couple years. comments, thoughts. >> can you explain which case this was? it wasn't the one with the hood. >> that was trayvon martin who had the hoodie and was schadenfreude. was thebrown 18-year-old in ferguson, mississippi who is stopped by officer darren wilson and in the course of an altercation, the police officer shot him and killed him. but there was a reason why brown's case in particular became such a touchstone. why did michael brown's case become even more kind of a big news than some of the others at the time? it was so blatant. i think with darren wilson, because michael brown was left in the street for four and half .ours [inaudible] >> people have the dealing with the injustices and the profiling and the racial profiling for so murder wass completely -- it was just like a boiling point. people were like "we are done." >> michael brown became the tipping point, the sort of lin

about 10 prisons throughout the state in george jackson and angela davis is time. today there are more than 30. plus various jails and federal prisons and so on. the state of california needs to build all of these prisons really quickly. we think about the kind of demands that the panthers are making against the state of california. that sncc 's making. how state resources should be spent. also a massive prison construction project. the most emp ambitious prison construction program in world history. the soledad brothers case becomes a touchstone in a time of prisoner activism. the sold-out of brothers were three men, all of them first encounter the criminal justice people as young people. one of them was eight years old. different experiences in the juvenile system. and they find themselves in adult prisons by the time they are 18 to 20 years old. george jackson becomes the most famous. he was the oldest. he was 18 when he was in prison. he got into trouble before, fights and burglaries. in 1960 he and a friend tried to rob a gas station. $70. the judge looks at h

and i had studied elaine brown, angela davis, kathleen cleaver, and i knew of afeni shakur through tupac of her before i met tupac. but when tupac and i became friends, i was able to meet afeni on a very personal level and eventually i asked her if she would be interested in me producing or putting together a story of her life as a panther. and these were only two or three years, like between 18 and 21 of her life. as we started doing the interviews for this very -- i wanted to tell the story of the panther 21 or the new york 21. she kept going beyond that time in her life and i kept saying to her, well, that's a book. that's not a movie. we're just doing this. and eventually i was honored and entrusted with writing the story of her whole life. she wanted to share more than just that part of her life. >> yeah, absolutely. and lola, you also had an opportunity to interview afeni shakur. what are some of the things you learned about her in being able to converse with her and talk with her? >> it was interesting meeting with her because you've heard about her for years. she was this larger