Jamal Joseph presents new book, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention

Oscar-nominee, activist and youth advocate Jamal Joseph presents his new book, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention.

In the 1960s Joseph exhorted students at Columbia University to burn their college to the ground. Today he’s chair of their School of the Arts film program. Jamal Joseph’s personal odyssey—from the streets of Harlem and the Black Panther Movement to Riker’s Island and Leavenworth to the halls of Columbia—is as gripping as it is inspiring.

In raw, powerful prose, Jamal Joseph helps us understand what it meant to be a soldier inside the militant Black Panther movement. He recounts a harrowing imprisonment as he charts his path to manhood in a book filled with equal parts rage, despair, and hope.