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CLR James
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In celebration of African Heritage Month, for profiles and excellence, we honor CLR 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 Shakur
Billy Holliday
Moses Fleetwood Walker
Albizu Campos
Chinua Achebe
Osborne Anderson
Harriet Tubman
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
Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In celebration of African Heritage Month, for profiles and 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
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
