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The Black Panther Party on Film
Mumia Abu-Jamal
When the Black Panther Party emerged in northern California, Oct. 1966, the images that were projected from that early period were arresting. Young, attractive Black men and women, armed for self and communal defense, openly… Full Transcript
Behind the Iron Curtain
Reginald Sinclair Lewis
I am Reginald Sinclair Lewis, and this piece is called “Behind the Iron Curtain.” My long, arduous journey to becoming a widely published award-winning poet, essayist, playwright began in the dark dungeons of Pennsylvania death… Full Transcript
Major: Battling on Two Fronts
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Major Tillery, for many years known as the jailhouse lawyer who led the 1990 Tillery v. Owens prisoners’ rights civil case, spawned from unconstitutional conditions at the state prison in Pittsburg, I still rumbling these… Full Transcript
Merci De Messi
White Supremacist Lies
Reginald Sinclair Lewis
My name is Reginald Sinclair Lewis, and this essay is called “White Supremacist Lies.” Pennsylvania Third Circuit Court of Appeals judge D. Michael Fisher was a prominent state senator before his appointment to the federal… Full Transcript
American Prisons as Senior Citizen’s Warehouses
Charles Karim Diggs
Hello everyone. My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I’m at Graterford, uh, prison. And my number is AK7945, Box 244, Graterford, PA 19426. I wanted to, uh, share my feelings about the senior citizens in… Full Transcript
DACA
National Disaster and Prisoners
Charles Karim Diggs
Good evening. My name is Charles Karim Diggs. Once again, I’m at Graterford prison in Pennsylvania. My number is AK7945. I want to talk about, uh, the, the hurricane that’s going on in the country… Full Transcript
The Visitor
Wilbert Sanders
This is Wilbert Sanders, Jazz the Poet, with “The Visitor.” While captured in the world of hard knocks, behind steel doors with electronic locks, fences topped off with razor wire, a living hell without the… Full Transcript
Declaration of Genocide
Omar Askia Ali
The subject matter today is a declaration of genocide. The practice to systematically exclude African-Americans from the jury process here, hereby generating an all-white jury, is a declaration of genocide by the Philadelphia district attorney… Full Transcript
Storms Over Texas
Politically Incorrect
Wilbert Sanders
Hi, this is Wilbert Sanders as Jazz the Poet, with a piece I’ll call “Politically Incorrect,” and I’m from FCI McKean. Lately the so-called United States are heavily divided and tainted with hate. A deadly… Full Transcript
The Politics Of Fear
White Supremacy
Charles Karim Diggs
My name is Charles Karim Diggs. My subject today is white supremacy. I think first we have to understand this country was founded by white males, and all the laws, rules, and customs was put… Full Transcript
Dick Gregory, The Curtain Falls
Mumia Abu-Jamal
His name was Richard Claxton Gregory, born Oct. 12, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri. But the world knew him as Dick Gregory, comedian, human rights activist, social critic and presidential candidate. As a young man,… Full Transcript
Mass Incarceration
Omar Askia Ali
My name is Omar Askia Ali, AKA Edward Sistrunk. I’m calling in reference to the, uh, mass incarceration. The United States imprisons more residents than any other nation in the world. Over 2.2 million individuals… Full Transcript
White Hate Groups Cause Terror in Charlottesville
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
A multitude of white hate groups gathered to rally Friday (8-11-17) in Charlottesville, VA in opposition to a local campaign to remove a statue of Confederate civil war General Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park.… Full Transcript
Criminal Cops Caught Red Handed
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Criminal Cops Caught Red Handed.” Thank God for modern technology: iPhones, street cameras, social media, and body cams. For without it, corrupt cops and police departments would have never been caught for the criminal acts… Full Transcript
President Trump At War With The World
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In the eight months since Donald Trump has been the President of the United States of America, he has intervened militarily in the nations of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and the Philippines. And he… Full Transcript
What does it mean to call oneself an abolitionist? The word doesn’t mean today what it meant 150 years ago. Then, it meant an end to what some have called ‘America’s Original Sin’–Slavery. Today? Well,… Full Transcript