updates on Zulu

New Legal team for Zulu!

Dear Supporters of Zulu,

Zulu is in his 47th year of a wrongful conviction for the August 15th, 1973 robbery and murder of the mayor in a rural community in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Free Zulu photo with blue sky — *Kenny Zulu Whitmore*

On February 1st, 2021 Zulu got a new legal team that consists of Emily Henrion Posner, Jim Boren, and a great investigator, Jennifer Vitry.

In 2013 Emily Posner, fresh out of Loyola Law School, took on the monumental task of unthinking the web of lies that sent an innocent man to prison. Now, more seasoned and a pitbull of an attorney who is bringing all of her skills to free Zulu, Posner is lead counsel.

Co-counsel, Jim Boren, is a veteran attorney in the wicked Louisiana judicial system with an amazing track record.

When I last communicated with Zulu, he was corona-free, healthy and in good spirits. And he was scheduled to take his first vaccination shot.

Zulu said of the B.P.P. Ten Point Program: “We still ‘want’ #7, the end to police brutality and outright murder of Black people in America,” and he said in the words of the late great Chairman of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, “They can jail a revolutionary with a life sentence, but they cannot jail the Revolution. All Power to The People, Zulu.”

Annabelle

Free Zulu Committee Europe

Angela A. Allen-Bell reports back from Kenny “Zulu” Whitmore’s Nov. 25 Court Hearing

From the Angola 3 e-Newsletter:

Zulu’s next hearing is on December 11!

SULC Professor Angela A. Allen-Bell was one of many supporters (including Robert King and Albert Woodfox) that attended Kenny “Zulu” Whitmore’s court hearing on November 25 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Following the hearing and a strong showing of public support at the courthouse, Prof. Bell told the A3 Coalition that “Zulu’s spirits were really lifted by our presence today. The State now has until the next court date (December 11) to test the fingerprints.”

If you live close enough, please help support Zulu by attending his court date next month. The December 11 hearing will be at the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge, LA.

In the meantime, Prof. Bell urges supporters to keep up the public pressure: “The Louisiana courts need to know all eyes are on them.”

For more information about Zulu’s case, please visit http://www.freezulu.org

(PHOTO: Zulu celebrates Christmas with his family on December 28, 2016. This photo and several others taken of Zulu visiting with his family were published by the SF Bay View Newspaper in 2017.)

Send Zulu Some Holiday Season Love!
Write Him:

Kenny Zulu Whitmore
86468 – Cypress #3
LA State Prison
Angola, LA 70712
U.S.A. (or use Jpay.com for an “email” which he can read on a kiosk)

Zulu’s supporters before the court room on Nov. 25, 2019

Zulu will have a hearing about his correct parole date

This Friday, Zulu will have a hearing before the Commissioner of the 19th Judicial District Court. This is about the Louisiana D.O.C. resetting his correct parole date.

Zulu has become eligible for parole since new laws came into place this year for prisoners serving life sentences since the 1970s, and who have already done 40+ years inside. However, in August he learned that his parole date was not set to September 2018, but 2083. His lawyers found out how this happened, and now he will have a Hearing via video court about this.

Let’s send good, positive thoughts to Zulu and his family and friends, comrades, in hopes he will be on board for the next parole hearing!

Zulu is waiting patiently

We wanted to update you on Zulu’s whereabouts.

In the beginning fo February, Zulu was moved to another building within the Louisiana State Pen, in Angola, LA. He is now in the Main Prison compound, Cypress#3 dormitory.

This is where the largest number of modern day slaves are housed: around 3,500 or more. Zulu was last housed in this area in 1985, when it had killings nearly every week, and stabbing every day, but not so much now. He also said there are a lot of kids down here who just don’t know.

What we learned is that the old solitary confinement buildings are being closed down at the moment, as they were becoming very old.

For the rest, Zulu is patiently waiting to hear from the court, and he is waiting to hear when he will come up for parole, as in Louisiana those prisoners who have been incarcerated the longest, from the 1970s, will be called up for parole! The order in which they are called up is by their number.

Here are some pictures of a visit by Zulu’s son and grandaughter, from November of last year!

Zulu’s new address is:

Kenny Zulu Whitmore
86468 Cypress#3
LA State Prison
Angola, LA 70712
U.S.A.

Zulu on the right, with his son and grandaughter, visiting in November of 2017

Zulu with his son and grandaughter, visiting in November of 2017

Zulu with his grandaughter, visiting in November of 2017

Update on Zulu: Summer 2017

PS Do not forget Zulu’s birthday on October 14th! Send him a card, letter, Jpay! Thank you!

Greeting, Fellow supporters and comrades of our beloved revolutionary

Zulu holding the SF Bayview, June 2017

Kenny Zulu Whitmore, who is being illegally held captive in America’s largest modern-day slave plantation, also known as the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, La.

On June 28th, 2017, Zulu lost his youngest brother due to a hit and run incident in Zachary, LA, a rural Community that sits in the Northern section of East Baton Rouge, Parish. His brother Alvin Whitmore’s funeral was held on Saturday 8th of July, 2017, and in a surprise move, the Louisiana Department of Corrections allowed Zulu to attend Alvin’s funeral. It was Zulu’s first time in forty-three years that he has been alowed to attend a funeral of a loved one and share grief with his family, signs of the time. Our deepest sympathy goes out to Zulu and his beautiful family, may Alvin Rest In Peace.
In Zulu’s most recent medical checkup he was given a clean Bill of Health, and from recent photo’s the former Black Panther looks very well fit to be a man of sixty-two years of age. He has also enrolled into School working toward getting his High School degree, and will start his C.P.R.-Course on August 21st.
In Legal matters: On July 14th, 2017, District Court Commissioner Denied the State’s brief in trying to have Zulu’s Post Conviction Relief dismissed on procedure grounds, and ORDERED the State to Respond to the merits of the Petition. We will pass on any new up dates, in our next post.

Sending our Revolutionary brother some love and light in that stationary slaveship.

Panther Love, And Solidarity

Updates on Zulu

From the Zulu Europe Support Team, March 18, 2017

Zulu celebrated his birthday with his family in October

Greetings fellow supporters of Kenny Zulu Whitmore. We apologise that it has been so long since we have given you all an update on our beloved Brother and Comrade Zulu, but we were bound by legal means from shining the light on our Warrior Brother’s plight. But here we are nevertheless, with some amazing news about our Brother Zulu.

On November 16th, 2015, Zulu, who was then the prisoner longest held in solitary confinement after Albert Woodfox, was released to general population, transferred to a dormitory within the prison in Angola, LA. After thirty-seven and a half years of living in a 9-6 ft cell, Zulu now shares the dormitory with 94 other prisoners. Being as well-known as he is, he has not had any problems of retaliation.

Zulu has a prison job where he is earning 2 ct an hour, as most of the prisoners do in Angola, LA, or should we call it what it is (a mere 2 ct an hour as amodern-day slave on one of the largest plantations in America). But it has been reported that Zulu is in good health and in strong spirits as always.

Zulu receives regular visits from his family, friends and his legal team. Zulu’s 14-year-old granddaughter Reagan says: “I love Big Papa and want him to come home!” Her father, Zulu’s son Rodney, takes her to see her grandfather whenever possible.

Zulu has completed several educational re-entry programs since being in the General Population area of the prison, and he is slanted to enroll in the GED program on a C.P.R. course in the very near future. Our brother Zulu has also become a very skillful craftsman in leather craft, such as belts, etc.

On the legal front, Kenny Zulu Whitmore was convicted of murder and armed robbery of the ex-Mayor of a rural community in East Baton Rouge Parish, that happened August 15th, 1973, and he was tried on January 3rd to 6th, 1977. He was convicted and sentenced to Life and over a hundred years in prison.

On July 31st 2014, Zulu’s legal team filed a Post Conviction Relief (PCR) citing several constitutional violations in Baton Rouge District Court. After over 24 months and many other small litigations it was ordered by the District Court Commissioner on February 2nd, 2017, that the State of Louisiana respond to the Constitutional claims made within Zulu’s Post Conviction Relief. We are waiting to hear when there will be a Hearing, and we will keep you updated whenever possible.

You can send our Warrior Brother some Love and Light at:

Kenny Zulu Whitmore
86468 J-Bass Unit
LA State Penitentiary
Angola, LA 70712

Annabelle, ZuluSupportEurope.wordpress.com