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Judicial Fury
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Montgomery v. Louisiana decision, ruled that its earlier 2012 ruling in the Miller v. Alabama case, (limiting life sentences when it came to juvenile defendants) was indeed retroactive… Full Transcript
Leotis Jones Holmesburg Prison
When Black History Month rolls around, many are tempted to tell great stories of great heroes and heroines, Black warriors fighting for freedom against vile racists. This isn’t that kind of story. Years ago, when… Full Transcript
Sundiata Sadiq Gentle Warrior
His name was Sundiata, and for over 40 years, he fought for the freedom of his people. Headquartered in Ossining, New York, Sundiata worked in, or led, a number of groups working for Black Liberation… Full Transcript
Pennsylvania Need Not Create a New Law to Parole 550 Child Lifer Prisoners
A Summary Review of the Supreme Court’s Montgomery Decision
Her Name is Angela Davis
Her name, Angela Davis, is known to millions – still. After the ‘60s – era uproar over her sensational trial and subsequent acquittal, for people of a certain generation, she is remembered for rocking an… Full Transcript
Freedom and Med Care for Leonard Peltier
For 40 years, former American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier has been in the clutches of the U.S. prison system –The Iron House of the whites, as indigenous people call them – on trumped… Full Transcript
For the Youth Hope
The U.S. Supreme Court issued another landmark ruling recently when it announced, in Montgomery V. Louisiana, that life imprisonment without parole was unconstitutional for juvenile prisoners, and that they should be granted new sentences or… Full Transcript
Kerry Shakaboona Marshall Reacts to Supreme Decision Interviewed by Noelle Hanrahan
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Rotten System Must Go
A Black National Party is Needed
Michigan Governor Snyder’s Criminal Acts of Environmental Racism
Flint: Water Wars Against the Poor
The MOVE Sisters: Freedom Now
It’s a fact that the U.S. is an Ahistorical society. If we go more than 20 minutes down time’s road, most Americans will have forgotten all; in a few weeks; a month? Forget it. Americans… Full Transcript
Flint: Crimes of Capital
From the beginning of human communal time, people built cities adjacent to rivers, for water, fresh water, was the source of life. Cairo (and before it grew into Cairo, Fustat), relied on the Nile; London… Full Transcript
MLK Enemy of the State
The name, Martin Luther King, Jr., has become an American talisman. Politicians, who have spent their entire careers ignoring or attacking the lives, rights or interests of African-Americans, erupt in praise of King, some even… Full Transcript
The Three Strikes Reform Act of 2016
Prosecutor’s Vested Interest: Untruth
In the Pennsylvania government, the prosecutor’s office represents the state in each of the federal judicial districts. The District Attorneys and Attorney Generals are vested with the power to represent “we the people” on behalf… Full Transcript
Free Reverend Pinkney
Reverend Edward Pinkney is the kind of preacher that Martin Luther King would have admired. Rather than build a mansion and live like a prince, Pinkney has, for years, advocated for his community, fighting for… Full Transcript