The Black Panthers Still in Prison After 46 years, Will They Ever Be Set free?
NOVANEWS
Ed Pilkington
The Black Panthers Still in Prison After 46 years, Will They Ever Be Set free?
“Every two years the Band-Aid gets ripped off your heart.”
Antoinette Russell vividly recalls the first time she was led to believe she would finally meet her father as a free man. He called her up on a prison phone, his voice shaking with excitement, and told her: “I’m coming home!”
That was 17 years ago. Since then, every two years, she’s been put through the same agonizing drill. “He’d call saying the same thing: ‘I’m coming home,’” she said, speaking at her home in Montgomery, Alabama.
“It got to the point where I said, ‘Daddy, I don’t want to hear that any more. I get my hopes up thinking you’re going to be released and then you’re not. It kills me every time.’”
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