Coffee with Jamal Joseph, Black Panther, Oscar Nominee, Author, Artivist

There are many reasons to have Coffee With Jamal Joseph... Maybe you have a screenplay or a book for Jamal to advise you on... Perhaps the former Black Panther and current Columbia University Professor can give you feedback on pitching your work and even do some brainstorming with you around your writing....

When you sit down over coffee with Jamal, you'll be treated to speaking with someone who was in the thick of the civil rights movement as a member of the Black Panther Party, is Tupac Shakur's godfather, earned two college degrees in prison, is a professor at Columbia University, just finished a feature film (Chapter and Verse), and is an OSCAR nominee…. Coffee is good but doesn't get much better than that!

Jamal is an American writer, director, producer, poet, activist, and educator. Joseph was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. He was prosecuted as one of the Panther 21. He spent 9 years incarcerated and earned two college degrees while in prison.

He is a full professor and former chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division and the artistic director of the New Heritage Theatre Group in Harlem. He has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, BET's American Gangster and on Tupac Shakur's The Rose That Grew from Concrete Volumes 1 and 2. He is the author of the interactive biography on Tupac Shakur, Tupac Shakur Legacy.

Joseph was nominated for a 2008 Academy Award in the Best Song category for his contributions to the song "Raise It Up", performed by IMPACT Repertory Theatre and Jamia Nash in the 2007 film August Rush. His memoir Panther Baby was published in February 2012 by Algonquin Books and you'll get a copy of it, signed, when you sit with Jamal for coffee.

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