Film serves as ‘opportunity to remind people of the real heroes of the Black Panthers’, says former party leaderWhen he was released from prison in 2014, Sekou Odinga felt like he was falling from the sky into a foreign land.
After 33 years behind bars, the former Black Panther party leader was released into a United States he didn’t recognize – with strange technology and grandchildren he had never hugged.Though he celebrated with family and supporters, Odinga, 73, also remained mindful of the many other civil rights activists who weren’t so lucky: “You always feel like you don’t want to leave nobody behind.”
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