Let's Bring Shaka A. Shakur Home: A Review of "Across Enemy Lines"

By Wayne Kidd The movie begins with a voice seeming to speak into a void: “Yeah, i wanna say something about my moms, man.” The words appear in subtitles on a blank panel. Suddenly, New Afrikan Political Prisoner Shaka A. Shakur appears. He speaks about his mother and his last words to her. Asking his wife to put the phone to her ear, Shaka tells her “You can let go… we going to be all right.” For…