Join author Susie Day and former Black Panthers Paul Coates and Eddie Conway to discuss lives, politics, and their friendship that helped Eddie survive decades in prison. In 1971, Eddie Conway, Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to life plus thirty years behind bars. Paul Coates was a community worker at the time and didn’t know Eddie well — the little he knew, he didn’t much like. But Paul was dead certain that Eddie’s charges were bogus. He vowed never to leave Eddie — and in so doing, changed the course of both their lives
The Brother You Choose can be purchased from Haymarket Books at https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1466-the-brother-you-choose
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