The Rock and The River

Mama sends Sam to bed before Father and Stick return home on the night of the protest at the police station. Unable to sleep, Sam starts reading the magazines under Stick’s bed that Stick forbade him to read. He finds an issue of the Black Panther magazine that includes information about Huey Newton and the party’s ten-point platform. Stick and Father return and continue their arguing until Father sends Stick to his room.

The next morning, Sam is looking for a shirt when he notices a section of the block tower has been rebuilt. He looks closer to find one of Stick’s shirt folded up inside the castle. When he pulls the shirt out, a gun rolls onto the floor. After looking at the gun, he puts it back in the tower and puts on Stick’s shirt that had been wrapped around it. Sam finds Stick after the breakfast and confronts him about the gun. Sticks says he is keeping it for a friend and walks away.

At dinner, Father asks Sam about what he saw during Bucky’s arrest. Mama and Stick ask Father to leave Sam alone, and he sends Sam and Stick to their room.