From Black Panther to convict to Oscar nominee

How's this for a resume: 

• Joined Black Panther Party at age fifteen
• Served eleven months in the infamous NY Rikers Island Jail
• FBI fugitive
• Member of Panther 21, one of the most emblematic criminal cases of the sixties
• At sixteen, one of the youngest spokesman and leaders of the Panther's New York Chapter.  
• Member of the Revolutionary Black Underground
• Sentenced to twelve years in Leavenworth
• Earned two college degrees while in Leavenworth and founded a prison theater
• Released from Leavenworth
• Becomes full professor and Chair of Columbia University's School of the Arts Film Program 
• Nominated for 2008 Academy Award in Best Song category
• Publishes memoir Panther Baby

My conversation with Jamal Joseph:

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