Rest In Power Albert Woodfox - Poster of the Week

Free All the Angola Three
Emory Douglas
Offset, 2008
Oakland, Ca
67790
Albert Woodfox, political prisoner, activist, former Black Panther and leader
in the Black Liberation movement, died last week of Covid-19. He had been
wrongfully convicted of murder yet had spent almost 44 years in solitary
confinement — the longest in U.S. history. He was released from
Louisiana’s notorious Angola Prison in 2016, almost eight years after Emory
Douglas designed this poster. Emory was the former Minister of Culture of
the Black Panther Party and CSPG’s 2006 “Art is a Hammer” honoree.
Woodfox along with two fellow Black Panthers, Robert Hillary King and
Herman Wallace, became known as the Angola 3, who were held in solitary