Honoring Fred Hampton on the 50th Anniversary of his Murder

City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus 1125 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

Join Jeff Haas & Emory Douglas and the Freedom Archives for this Howard Zinn Book Fair event! 50 years ago Chicago police with FBI support raided Black Panther Fred Hampton’s Chicago apartment assassinating him and Mark Clark and injuring 4 others. Attorney Jeff Haas exposes the conspiracy behind the execution in this updated book. Emory […]

Born on the MOVE

518 Valencia 518 Valencia, San Francisco, CA, United States

This is a unique Bay Area chance to meet Mike and Debbie Africa (from the MOVE organization) and their son Mike Jr. Mike and Debbie spent over 40 years in prison in Pennsylvania and were finally released at the end of 2018. Using storytelling and hip hop, Mike Africa, Jr will take us on a […]

Attica Means Fight Back: Cultivating Resistance Then & Now

Zoom Panel

Link to Register: bit.ly/AtticaFightBack Event will be Facebook livestreamed! *You are welcome to register, but as we approach our capacity limit we recommend you plan to watch the event via FB livestream on the page of Freedom Archives. This event is part of a national month of actions marking the Attica uprising and demanding decarceration […]

Panthers After the Party: A Conversation on Black Power Afterlives

The Black Panther Party (BPP) has made an undeniable impact on the iconography, language, culture and practice of revolutionary struggles since the mid-1960s. Join former BPP members/political prisoners in a discussion about commitment, creativity, continuity, and how to best cultivate and sustain resistance. Speakers include Ericka Huggins, Hank Jones, Sekou Odinga, and Akinsanya Kambon - […]

Art Against Imprisonment: a Virtual Art Exhibit

Art Against Imprisonment, a Virtual Art Exhibit, features art from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in Palestine and in the US as a small testament to their creativity, imagination, and expressions of solidarity. Join us in launching this exhibit with former political prisoners Hafez Omar, Lina Khattab, Linda Evans, and Oscar Lopez Rivera; with a […]

Defending Our Communities, Defending Our Lives – Former Women Political Prisoners Speak Out for International Women’s History Month

Defending Our Communities, Defending Our Lives - Former Women Political Prisoners Speak Out for International Women's History Month Across the U.S. and the globe, unprecedented health, economic and social crisis is leading to escalating violence against BIPOC communities, often targeting women and TGNC people in particular. Over 10,000 people were arrested in the course of […]

Virtual Film Screenings: Fundraiser to Benefit NLG-SFBA & Freedom Archives

Rescheduled: Virtual Film Screenings Due to a number of factors including ongoing concerns about COVID and worsening air quality, we have cancelled our in-person screenings at HEIST originally scheduled for 8/28 and 9/11, and have postponed them until October. We will hold the rescheduled screenings as virtual-only, with a panel and guided discussions to bookend […]

100 Years from Mississippi (March 20th Only)

The Roxie Theater 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

Click to Buy Tickets Mamie Lang Kirkland was seven years old when she fled Ellisville, Mississippi in 1915 with her mother and siblings as her father and his friend, John Hartfield, escaped an approaching lynch mob. John Hartfield returned to Mississippi in 1919 and was killed in one of the most horrific lynchings of the […]