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May 13
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It has been eight years now since the massacre, eight years since the carnage on Osage Avenue, eight years since an urban Holocaust which stole eleven human lives, eight years since the unjust encagement of… Full Transcript
Eddie Hatcher Fights For His Life
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The name Eddie Hatcher is widely known and respected by the people. It is hated by the system. For Hatcher, a Tuscarora Lumbee Native, along with his fellow Tim Jacobs, brought national attention to the… Full Transcript
Black August
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“George Jackson was my hero. He set a standard for prisoners, political prisoners, for people. He showed the love, the strength, the revolutionary fervor that’s characteristic of any soldier for the people. He inspired prisoners… Full Transcript
Justice Stolen From Star Chamber
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“That justice is a blind Goddess, is a thing to which we Blacks are wise. Her bandage hides two festering sores that once perhaps were eyes.” Poem called “Justice” by Langston Hughes. Elmer Geronimo Pratt… Full Transcript
With Malice Towards Many
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The brutal police bludgeoning of Black Detroit father Malice Green has illustrated the battle lines of the so called “War on Drugs” could more accurately be drawn around a war on Blacks. Published reports surfacing… Full Transcript
Build a Better Mousetrap
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Many Americans have a skewed perception of Japan. As skewed, perhaps, as many foreigners have of America, many of whom seem to expect cowboys and Indians. Of Japan, the image arises of the feudal Samurai,… Full Transcript
Absence of Power
Mumia Abu-Jamal
A woman working to feed the homeless gets involved in a confrontation with transit cops down on a major metropolitan subway. She’s accosted, manhandled, thrown to the ground, and held under restraint. Another woman has… Full Transcript
When Ineffective Means Effective
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In a case known as Strickland v. Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court drastically narrowed the range of challenges to the effectiveness and competence of counsel at criminal trials. The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution… Full Transcript
Black March To Death Row
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Every day in America, the trek continues, a Black march to death row. In Pennsylvania, where Afro-Americans constitute 9% of the population, well over 60% of its death row inhabitants are Black. Across the nation,… Full Transcript
LA Outlaw
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The federal trial of four Los Angeles cops, forced by the public orgy of rebellion and rage, which rocked the city a year before in response to acquittal stemming from the brutal Rodney King beating,… Full Transcript
War on The Poor
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In every phase and facet of national life, there’s a war being waged on America’s poor. In social policy, poor mothers are targeted for criminal sanctions for acts, if committed by mothers of higher economic… Full Transcript
A House is Not A Home
Mumia Abu-Jamal
She sits in utter stillness. Her coffee brown features, as if set in obsidian, as if a mask, barely perceptible; the tears threatening to overflow that dark, proud maternal face, a face held still by… Full Transcript
Blackman Bows Out of Death Game
Mumia Abu-Jamal
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the court senior justice who recently announced his retirement, has firmly held as a matter of constitutional law that the death penalty, as currently administered, is unconstitutional.… Full Transcript
My name is Mumia Abu-Jamal. I’m a journalist, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and an African American. I live in the fastest-growing public housing tract in America. In 1981, I was a reporter for… Full Transcript