Some of us think of the issue of mass incarceration as a state problem, a national problem, or even a legal problem. The immense growth of the prison industrial complex is all of these things… Full Transcript
I write today of a man on Death Row, a man known to many as “2 Gunz.” For many, perhaps most, the words “Death Row”, and the nickname, “”2 Gunz”, when used in the same… Full Transcript
by Lorenzo Cat Johnson I would like to start by thanking everyone who have helped me in any shape or form in proving my innocence. As noted by the infamous Third Circuit Court of Appeals,… Full Transcript
For those who know the life and struggles of former Black Panther and Black Liberation fighter, Assata Shakur, the US government attacks on her, by ludicrously labeling her a terrorist, and posting a bounty on… Full Transcript
Why Are We: The New Afrikan Black Panther Party Was Created. We created the Black Panther Party as a vanguard organization that will blaze and illuminate the path forward; that will put back on the… Full Transcript
With news emerging of widespread US spying on several dozen European leaders and populations, we see the rise of the national –no, international security state. Spy craft has long been a tool of states, especially… Full Transcript
From the first arrival of Africans on the shores and islands of the Americas as captives, music, and often acapella (or without instrumentation) became the central tool of communication. Chained together like two-legged cattle, under… Full Transcript
Several days ago, the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Philadelphia, delivered a shocking decision in the continuing case of Lorenzo Johnson, the New Yorker recently released from 17 years in prison after… Full Transcript
Greetings to Members and Delegates of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) IN San Juan, Puerto Rico for the Law for the People Convention. As I thought about this event, I could not avoid thinking of… Full Transcript
Correctional facilities, from maximum security facilities like San Quentin and Pelican Bay to immigration centers, the juvenile justice system, private for-profit prisons and county jails, where prisoners spend longer and longer periods of time under… Full Transcript
Dear brothers and sisters, dear fellow French journalists — Greetings. We as journalists are those who tell the stories of the people to the people. My friends, let us think and consider our work. Who… Full Transcript
Chers frères et sœurs, chers confrères journalistes français, bonjour. En tant que journalistes, nous sommes ceux qui racontent les histoires du peuple au peuple. Mes amis, réfléchissons à notre travail. Qui servons-nous, les propriétaires ou… Full Transcript
Buenos dias, Juan. The subject of the radical press arises always in times of social discontent, when the acquiescence of the straight media forces people to seek alternative sources of information. During the 1960s millions… Full Transcript
Explanation: I am not discussing a TV show. The subject today is the tens of thousands, indeed hundreds of thousands of men, women, and juveniles who are doing life sentences in American prisons. In Pennsylvania,… Full Transcript
As the clock ticks down toward the looming debt ceiling and the federal government shutdown continues, the parties stare at each other like adversaries across an abyss, for they are at war with each other… Full Transcript
The Ten Point Program: Its Relevancy and its Significance in the 21st Century. The Ten Point Program and platform of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party is a revolutionary program precisely meant to organize and… Full Transcript
The New Afrikan Black Panther Party calls upon the workers, students, prisoners, and street groups to honor Comrade Herman Wallace, an all-the-way revolutionary, an elder of the national liberation struggle, who died three days after… Full Transcript
The long and tortured life of Herman Wallace, of the famed Angola 3, was meant to terrorize us, to stifle the resistance that flamed throughout the Black nation and many others across the country during… Full Transcript
Herman Wallace, the former Black Panther and former political prisoner in the abominable Angola prison in Louisiana, has returned to his ancestors. Wallace, one of three men called the Angola 3, was freed just days… Full Transcript
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