BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:DC Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:DC Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dc305c0c-3b85-4094-a2aa-b18f03b89a99 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260812T100642Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230519T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230519T150000 SUMMARY:Aoki LOCATION:Southwest Neighborhood Library\nSouthwest Neighborhood Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Southwest Neighborhood Lib rary;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Southwest Neighborhood Library:geo:38.87867 89,-77.0158287 GEO:38.8786789;-77.0158287 DESCRIPTION:AOKI chronicles the life of Richard Aoki (1938-2009)\, a third -generation Japanese American who became one of the founding members of th e Black Panther Party..\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/8010746 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Filmed over the last five years of Richard &rsquo\;s life\, this documentary features extensive footage with Richard and exclusive interviews with his comrades\, friends\, and former students .

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Viewers will learn about Richard&rsquo\;s childhood in a WWII Ja panese American concentration camp\, growing up in West Oakland\, and serv ing eight years in the U.S. military. The film explores previously unknown facts about the formation of the Black Panther Party such as how Richard became intimately involved in its founding and contributed the first two f irearms to the Party.

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Official Selection at the San Francisco Inte rnational Asian American Film Festival and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific F ilm Festival.

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