Filter Commentaries
Boycott Whirlpool
Any System
Words Vs. Deeds
For now, the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon is perhaps the most famous fraternity in America – for all the wrong reasons. It’s also been disbanded from the campus of the University of Oklahoma, at Norman,… Full Transcript
Unsaid at Selma
Welcome to the Movement
PA Department of Corrections Targets Prison Radio
Prison Radio is an outstanding news outlet run by people who believe in incarcerated-citizens’ rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression and which provides a news medium for prisoners to report what goes… Full Transcript
Ferguson USA
With breathless news reports, the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s Pattern and Practice Study paints a damning picture of a long, cruel and bitter train of maltreatment, mass profiling, police targeting and brutality against Black people… Full Transcript
International Hutzpah
The image of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu presiding over a joint session of Congress was deeply disturbing on many levels. First, it was a carefully calculated insult to a sitting [African]-American President, Barack Obama.… Full Transcript
Who I Am and What I Hate
I Must Repeat These Six Words
In this struggle for life, no person or family of people should ever have to experience what happened to the MOVE Family on May 13, 1985. This crime against our collective humanity must never be… Full Transcript
Real Justice For Rodney Reed
Feeding on Fear
Every day, every night, through various media, we feed on fear. We feast on it. It matters not the measure, nor its girth; we devour it, for we cannot get enough. ‘So and So is… Full Transcript
Denver Police Murder Jessica Hernandez
Jessica Hernandez, a 17-year-old transgender Latina known as Jessie to her friends, was murdered in cold blood by two Denver, Colorado police officers while sitting in a vehicle with four of her teenage friends. Denver… Full Transcript
The Dark Side of American Exceptionalism
Dallas Six
Andre Jacobs, Carrington Keys, Derrick Stanley, Duane Peters, Anthony Kelley and Anthony Locke are The Dallas 6. A group of courageous Pennsylvania state prisoners who have stood up against prison guards’ torture, abuse and terror… Full Transcript
Ode to Butter (Terrence Williams)
The name on his death warrant is Terrance Williams, but that’s not his name. It’s Terry Williams – and some clerk, some prosecutor perhaps, decided to make it “Terrance” —and so it is. The man… Full Transcript
Frankenstein’s Monster
Every generation for the past 200 years can vividly picture the Frankenstein monster. Tall imposing, usually mute, this creature is alive and not alive; mobile, but haltingly so, that we, the more nimble can escape… Full Transcript
After the roaring summer of 2014, of angry youth protests that shook over 200 cities on the issue of cop violence and official impunity in the use of state violence, it’s worth our while to… Full Transcript