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An Introduction
Verlie Word
My name is Verlie Word. Location, Nottoway Correctional in Virginia Department of Corrections. I’m serving multiple life sentences in the Virginia Department. In 1993, two men lost their lives because of my action. I do… Full Transcript
Being Open to Feedback
Dallas Britt
This is Dallas Britt, 225132 at Minnesota Correctional Facility Rush City, Rush City, Minnesota 7600-525 Street, 55069. This is called “Being Open-Minded to Feedback From Anyone.” Lessons in corrections can come from many different people… Full Transcript
Reflections On Resentment
Dallas Britt
This is Dallas Britt, 225132 at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Rush City, 7600-525 Street, Rush City MN 55069. I have a reflection today on how resentments make us sick. They make us sick because they fill us… Full Transcript
The 12 Steps
Dallas Britt
This is Dallas Britt, Minnesota ID 225132, incarcerated at Minnesota Correctional Facility—Rush City, Rush City, Minnesota 55069. For the last year and a half, I’ve been working a lot on becoming a better Christian and… Full Transcript
How Did I Sin?
Spoon Jackson
How did I sin? How did I sin? I was not born into sin. I was born out of love. How did I sin? I am not Adam. Not an apple he bit. I’ve never… Full Transcript
The Sole Purpose By Daryl Mitchell
Bilal Abdul Salaam-Bey
This is Bilal Abdul-Salam Bey. This piece is by Daryl Mitchell, number 114031, at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility. It is called the full purpose of 22:12 Islam as presented are Daryl Mitchell. And he says… Full Transcript
Their God
Peter “Pitt” Mukuria
So this poem is titled “Their God.” Former president Trump claimed to be a Christian, and former vice president Pence claimed to be a Christian. David Duke, formal leader of KKK, claim to be a… Full Transcript
The Struggle Continues
Dontie Mitchell
I’m a man of action. So it bothers me I’m stuck in prison and thus limited in the impact I can make in this world to help myself, help my family, and to help others.… Full Transcript
Letter To A Woman
Jamil Pirant
Hi, my name is Jamil, and the title is called “A Woman.” A woman is respected on how she present herself. Not so much so on what she do or don’t have on, but her… Full Transcript
Dreaded Self Liberation and Self Regeneration
Yafeu Iyapo
My name is Yafeu Iyapo. Subject title: The Dreaded Self Liberation and Self Regeneration of Baba [inaudible] the first, revisited. Subtitle: Can we identify one, two, three, or more of the still living master keys,… Full Transcript
Murder Inc. The Colony He Helped Found
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Murder Incorporated Book One: Dreaming of Empire by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. “The Colony He Helped Found.” The colony he helped create did not hesitate to execute Quakers or go medieval on those considered… Full Transcript
From the King
Reginald Sinclair Lewis
I am Reginald Sinclair Lewis and this piece is called “From The King.” My now deceased parents Samuel and [inaudible] Louis were decent, hardworking African-Americans during the turbulent sixties and ugly era of racial segregation.… Full Transcript
Roy: Just a Good Ole Boy
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The stunning scandal surrounding Judge Roy Moore’s Senate campaign is a tale of power, not one of sex. Nothing so engages the news media like a sex scandal, for it’s a ratings bonanza! And although… 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
Sunni Muslims
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
My name is brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, Indiana political prisoner. I am calling from the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, where I’ve been held for the last, uh, four years. “We’re All Sunni Muslims, Not Terrorists,”… Full Transcript
James Baldwin: Word Warrior
Mumia Abu-Jamal
He was born in Harlem Hospital, New York, August 2nd, 1924; oddly enough, the same year that my mother was born in the South. His name, at birth, was James Arthur Jones, to a mother… Full Transcript
Is the Religious Political?
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Is the religious political?” In the academy, one is confronted with a plethora of departments, disciplines which, while ostensibly united under the aegis of the institution we call the university, these very sectional divisions betray… Full Transcript
Rain Down on Me
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
Hello, this is a poem called “Rain Down on Me” in association with the commentary “A Storm is Coming.” It symbolizes the strength of rain and God’s vastness in purifying the land of evil, racism,… Full Transcript
Hi, my name is Robert Neibler and the name of my piece is, “My Material.” It beats. I breathe. I rise. As I search this world for meaning and my shining light still I rewind… Full Transcript