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C.L.R. James
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In celebration of African Heritage Month, for Profiles in Excellence, we honor C.L.R. James, 1901 to 1989. James was many things over a long distinguished career—revolutionary organizer, historian, professor, journalist, are just some of them.… Full Transcript
Tupac Amaru Shakur
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In celebration of African Heritage Month, for Profiles in Excellence, we honor Tupac Amaru Shakur. June 16th, 1971, died September 13, 1996. Was born almost literally in the midst of the Black Revolution. That’s because… Full Transcript
Billie Holiday
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In celebration of African Heritage Month, for Profiles in Excellence we honor: Billie Holiday was a consummate jazz singer whose work continues to inspire and influence even after the passing of fifty years. What made… Full Transcript
Moses Fleetwood Walker
Albizu Campos
Chinua Achebe: Profiles in Excellence
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In celebration of African Heritage Month for Profiles in Excellence, we honor Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist whose 1960 classic, Things Fall Apart, inspired Black readers and writers around the world with his three dimensional portrayal… Full Transcript
Osborne P. Anderson
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In celebration of African Heritage Month, for Profiles in Excellence, we honor Osborne P. Anderson, of which a great deal isn’t known, except his participation in the 1859 raid on the U.S. armory at Harper’s… Full Transcript
Harriet Tubman
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In celebration of African Heritage Month, for Profiles in Excellence, we honor Harriet Tubman. She was many things in her life, slave, escaped slave, rebel, liberator, soldier, spy, nurse, commander. Originally named Araminta, later renamed… Full Transcript
Shirley Chisholm
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In celebration of African Heritage Month for Profiles in Excellence, we honor Shirley Chisholm 1924 to 2005, broke a number of barriers on the battlefield of politics. She was the first Black woman elected to… Full Transcript
Huey Newton
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In celebration of African Heritage Month, for Profiles in Excellence we honor: Dr Huey P. Newton was born in 1942 and died in 1989. He co-founded the Black Panther Party in October, 1966, when he… Full Transcript
Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán: Profiles in Excellence
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In celebration of African Heritage Month, for Profiles in Excellence, we honor Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, born 1918, died 1995. Beltrán was a groundbreaking Mexican historian and anthropologist who uncovered a hidden Black history in the… Full Transcript
William Parker
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In celebration of African Heritage Month, for Profiles in Excellence, we honor: William Parker was the central figure in the Christiana rebellion of September 11th, 1851 in Pennsylvania. Together with other members of the local… Full Transcript
How I Lived, What I Ate
How I lived, what I ate And what I wore is not who I am. My skin is my sin, Which was dealt to me Like a shantytown hustler’s sleight-of-hand win. I ask for my… Full Transcript
Brother Phil Africa MOVE Member 1956-2015
Mumia Abu-Jamal
31 JAN.: Celebrate the Life of Phil Africa! ONA MOVE, Everybody. First, let me thank each of you for your genuine and kind words to this family regarding the loss of our brother, Phil Africa.… Full Transcript
After Colony Chaos
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It has been decades since the decolonization process in the ‘60s, when African and Arab states, often through armed struggle, broke free of European colonial control. It has been decades, yes but the fires lit… Full Transcript
Ferguson: The Epicenter
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Meinen Freunden! Wie Gehts! Bewegung! For tens of thousands of young people in America, protests against police violence and state terrorism is the order of the day. They take to the streets every day, no… Full Transcript
Remembering Our Sami
Mumia Abu-Jamal
I could see it like yesterday. A radiant little girl beaming with a smile like sunshine, running into the house, carrying our cat, Africa, into the living room. Africa had an all black coat with… Full Transcript
How To Get Away With Murder
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
There is a disturbing pattern of cops getting away with murdering unarmed mostly Black and Latino males in America. This pattern of cops murdering unarmed Black males can be seen in the cases of Oscar… Full Transcript
MOVE Commemoration
Sundiata Acoli
This is Sundiata Acoli from FCI Cumberland, Maryland, speaking on the May 13th MOVE commemoration activity. May 13th. Eleven MOVE family members, five of them children, the rest, women and men, who were savagely murdered, slaughtered,… Full Transcript
