Books @ the Pier, July 24, 2005. Eddie Ellis, who moderated the panel discussion, talks to a couple of friends at the event.

Eddie is president of the Community Justice Center, Inc., a New York City criminal justice advocacy organization and a consultant for the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute, Criminal Justice Initiative. He served 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
He is a writer, lecturer, community activist and former leader of the Black Panther Party. In 1967 he was targeted for "neutralization" under the FBI Counter Intelligence Program(COINTELPRO), resulting in his arrest and imprisonment. He has always maintained his innocence.

Photo by Dan Cohen