Commentaries

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

The boycott at Center City Philadelphia’s fashionable Bijou Café continues. Mumia’s Abu-Jamal was there. For the second time this week, nearly 100 protesters and supporters of the United Black Concert Promoters of America joined air… Full Transcript

You’ve been doing what you’ve been doing for quite a, quite a, long time. By that I mean your music, you know, for quite a long time in the states. And there were people who… Full Transcript

(Abu-Jamal) No reggae artist in the world has attracted the loving accolades of the dreadlocked Marley. Marley is truly a missionary and his message — one of global black redemption — is contained within the… Full Transcript

Shortly before reading A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, I read what is regarded as one of the “finest one-volume chronicles” of the U.S. Civil War (according to the Wall Street Journal blurb on the cover),… Full Transcript

South Africa, the beautiful yet haunted land of racist repression most vile, has marched past its Western neighbor the United States. As its highest court, the 11 member Constitutional Court, found the death penalty as… Full Transcript

My name is John Edgar Wideman. There is a kind of glory in the struggle. I was lucky enough to be in South Africa when Mandela- the day he was released, and I heard him… Full Transcript

You were taught that you control nature. Remember how water seems pent it and trapped till the dam breaks and crumbles and dies like its maker. To blockade life’s plan is cruel, fatal, blind, deadly… Full Transcript

A federal civil rights trial in Philadelphia charging seven former Graterford prison guards with violating the civil rights of a number of prisoners by severely beating them while they were shackled and cuffed hand and… Full Transcript

I am Justice Bruce Wright, retired state Supreme Court justice here in New York. And all too often law has little or nothing to do with justice, and “Law and Order” is the cry heard… Full Transcript

“De Profundis”: One is amazed, and even astonished, to consider those millions who today claim spiritual lineage from a being called Christ. For if one were from outer space, and able to view life on… Full Transcript

This is Robert Meeropol. I am the Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, and also the younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed by the government of the United States… Full Transcript