02/21/2012 7:30 pm
As a teenager in the Bronx ghetto of the 1960s, Eddie Joseph was introduced to the tenets of the Black Panther Party just as it gained a national foothold. The cause swallowed him into one of the most emblematic criminal cases of the '60s. After his stint at Rikers, Eddie--now called Jamal--joined the Revolutionary Black Underground and eventually landed back in prison--where he founded a prison theater and earned two degrees. In his memoir, Panther Baby, he vividly recounts his introduction to Panther life and his progression from a naïve street kid to a confident and outspoken member of an influential national movement, and later to an Oscar nominee and a Columbia University professor.
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