“They are the unspoken, invisible and buried-alive legacy of the revolutionary movements of the 1960s and 70s that were neutralized by the FBI, local police, courts and the corporate media, by way of Cointelpro,” said Dequi Kioni Sadiki, host of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee’s 22nd annual dinner Tribute to Black Political Prisoners and Their Families, last week in New York City. “From one generation to another, they have been forced to bear the unyielding and unrelenting punishment of 800-plus years of political imprisonment, torture, abuse, repeated parole denials and multiple generations of family separation.”