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Folk Singer Joan Baez and Carlos Santana and his Latin rock band had a captive audience last week. The occasion: a concert they gave at California's Soledad prison set up by Rock Impresario Bill Graham. The 600 prisoners who curled up on the grass of a playing field were not shortchanged. Baez, 36, sang songs like Raze the Prisons Down and passed out carnations. She then danced with a few prisoners and invited "two brothers" to come play with the band. After the final note, Baez said farewell by yelling loud and clear: "I hope...
George Jackson and the Soledad Broth ers - and recycles it into a racial morality play of staggering and offensive simplemindedness. The real George Jackson was gunned down in the yard of San Quentin Prison in 1971. Was he trying to escape, as prison officials...
When he died, Jackson was awaiting trial on a charge that he and two other black prisoners in California's Soledad Prison had killed a guard. Jack son had helped to make his case a rallying cry for the left by writing scores of lacerating, eloquent letters from prison (published in 1970 as Soledad Brother...
Vivaldi Cycle. That George Jack son may well have been harassed, that ultimately none of the charges against Davis or Jackson's Soledad co-defendants could be made to stick - these are valid points. Brothers renders them in valid only by exploiting their quasi-factual basis while changing all the names and parading the case as fiction...
...having taken part in a spectacular, bloody and unsuccessful escape attempt on Aug. 21, 1971. Three were convicted, three acquitted. The trial followed a series of violent events centering on George Jackson, a black prisoner and social revolutionary whose bitter writings about life behind bars became a popular book (Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson...