Common Read 2023: How the Word is Passed

The Whitney Plantation became the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on slavery when it opened to the public in 2014.

This is the story of the Angola Three, three remarkable men – Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox – who as members of the Black Panther Party have been fighting for justice since the early 1970s. For decades left forgotten in the depths of America’s bloodiest prison, between them the Angola Three spent over a Century in solitary, and their struggle became an international scandal.