Film Screening - The Pendelton 2: They Stood Up
Fri, Apr 03
|Sankofa Video Books & Café
Join us for a screening of The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up, a powerful documentary about two men who fought to prove their innocence after a wrongful conviction. The screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Too Black and Evan Wright.
Time & Location
Apr 03, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Sankofa Video Books & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
About The Event
About the film
On the morning of February 1, 1985, Lincoln “Lokmar” Love was doomed to the same fate as George Floyd, Tyre Nichols, and so many other Black men in the US. As he lay handcuffed and shackled, Pendleton Correctional Facility guards beat the prisoner beyond recognition as terrified bystanders watched from their cells. But Lokmar’s story ended differently when 2 fellow prisoners sacrificed their freedom to save him from his assailants — a Ku Klux Klan-affiliated guard gang known as the Sons of Light. "The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up" tells the story of John “Balagoon” Cole and Christopher “Naeem” Trotter, the leaders of the Indiana prison uprising that rescued Lokmar, exposed Pendleton’s dehumanizing conditions, and unleashed the vindictive wrath of the Indiana Department of Correction. Presented by the Defense Committee to Free the Pendleton 2, "They Stood Up" features exclusive first hand testimony from Cole and Trotter,…
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