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An interview from 2019 with former jailed Black Panther Albert Woodfox who died last week.

Stephen Sackur's interview from 2019 with former jailed Black Panther Albert Woodfox, who died last week.

There are some human experiences which most of us find it very hard to get it hard to get our heads around. Albert Woodfox, who died last week, spent more than 4 decades in solitary confinement in a tiny cell in one of America's most notorious prisons. He was the victim of ingrained racism and brutality inside America's system of criminal justice. Stephen Sackur spoke to him in 2019, when he was living as a free man and asked him what that freedom really meant after so many years of incarceration?

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