At the height of his prominence, revolutionary Black Puerto Rican anarchist Martin Sostre was one of the most identifiable political prisoners in the world. The decade-long campaign to "Free Martin Sostre" marked one of the most improbable, if since forgotten, victories of the Black Power era, alongside those of Huey Newton and Angela Davis. Although Sostre is a key progenitor of contemporary Black anarchism and abolitionism, his life and thought remains virtually unknown today.

What can the life of Martin Sostre, a former political prisoner and the progenitor of Black anarchism, tell us about our own fight against fascism? Please join us for a screening of Frame-Up! (1974, 30 minutes) and post-screening conversation with Garrett Felber about what we can learn from Sostre about prisons, the state, and revolutionary struggle today

Garrett Felber is an interdisciplinary historian whose work focuses on 20th-century social movements, the Black radical tradition, and the carceral state. His award-winning book Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State was published in 2020 by the University of North Carolina Press. He is currently writing a biography of former political prisoner Martin Sostre.