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Contraband Strip Search
This is a Comrade Pitt. I’m calling in with a commentary. This story is about an article which was by the Virginia newspaper, how they reported how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed their most contraband, namely… Full Transcript
The DOC Goes Cuckoo
“The DOC Goes Cuckoo.” It began with a 10-day lockdown, almost 50,000 men and women held in 24-hour solitary confinement for almost two weeks in their cell. Why? Ostensibly because of several dozen staffers who… Full Transcript
Public Health
My name is Charles Karim Diggs, calling from, uh, Pennsylvania, Graterford prison. And, uh, this additional, uh, topic I would like to talk about public health. There is a public health problem in America, which… Full Transcript
Essay
My name is Edward Sistrunk. I’m known as Omar Askia Ali. I’ve been incarcerated since 1971, tried twice by an all-white jury for a murder robbery case that I had nothing to do with. The… Full Transcript
Ronald C. White
The Cost of Loss
Mumia Interviewed About Marijuana on Kiss the Sky Radio
Dark Days
America’s So-Called Humanitarian Intervention Wars are an Utter Failure
Afeni Shakur 1947-2016
She was born Alice Faye Williams in the dusty little town of Lumberton, North Carolina – January 10, 1947. A dimpled little Black girl, who grew into a petite young revolutionary known as Afeni Shakur,… Full Transcript
The US Government’s Conspiracy to Destroy Black Communities
Ehrlichman: War on Drugs Really War on Blacks and Hippies
For the youth of today, the name John Ehrlichman rings no bells. For people who lived through the ’60s, it is either famous or notorious. The name references a former high-ranking member of the White… Full Transcript
The Awakening
They Came in the Morning
Black Lives Have Never Mattered In The United States of America And Never Will
Statistics
Epiphanies
Messin’ With Major
His name is Major — (his real name)–Major Tillery of West Philadelphia. Although he had a reputation as a gangster, in prison such things matter little. It’s as a jailhouse lawyer that he shook the… Full Transcript
I am Izell Robinson, Minnesota inmate number 210006. Today, I want to present a piece called “Confessions of an Addict.” I’ve evaded pain for far too long. At least I thought I was by distracting… Full Transcript