My name is John Edgar Wideman. There is a kind of glory in the struggle. I was lucky enough to be in South Africa when Mandela- the day he was released, and I heard him… Full Transcript
You were taught that you control nature. Remember how water seems pent it and trapped till the dam breaks and crumbles and dies like its maker. To blockade life’s plan is cruel, fatal, blind, deadly… Full Transcript
Mujah Shakir: Talk about rebellious, I’d like to bring up Judi Bari. Judi is an environmental activist with Earth First! Judi Bari: One of the things that Mumia has overcome is the incredible dehumanization as… Full Transcript
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the court Senior Justice, who recently announced his retirement, has finally held as a matter of constitutional law, that the death penalty as currently administered, is unconstitutional. Blackmun,… Full Transcript
I am Manning Marable. The voice of Black political journalism has always proved to be decisive throughout Black history, from David Walker’s appeal in 1829, to the political journalism of Frederick Douglass, to the Black… Full Transcript
For her people, this tiny, fiery, coffee colored woman was a legend. Welfare mother, welfare activist, militant Chairwoman of the Philadelphia chapter of Welfare Rights Organization, and then with her hard work and iron will,… Full Transcript
A federal civil rights trial in Philadelphia charging seven former Graterford prison guards with violating the civil rights of a number of prisoners by severely beating them while they were shackled and cuffed hand and… Full Transcript
I am Justice Bruce Wright, retired state Supreme Court justice here in New York. And all too often law has little or nothing to do with justice, and “Law and Order” is the cry heard… Full Transcript
“De Profundis”: One is amazed, and even astonished, to consider those millions who today claim spiritual lineage from a being called Christ. For if one were from outer space, and able to view life on… Full Transcript
This is Robert Meeropol. I am the Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, and also the younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed by the government of the United States… Full Transcript
Much has been said and written on NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. As the economy lurches into recession after recession, some are selling NAFTA as the be all, end all, a solution to… Full Transcript
This is Martin Sheen. Mumia Abu-Jamal’s raw and impassioned commentaries are certain to fuel the controversy surrounding the death penalty and freedom of speech. Listen to this incisive critic of our criminal justice system speaking… Full Transcript
“30 to 100 years, no more! Free move now! Open up the door!,” a marchers chant. To hear news accounts their numbers weren’t impressive, with less than 50 marchers participating in a May 13, 1993… Full Transcript
Noelle Hanrahan: Juan Gonzalez was a member of the Young Lords. In the 1980s, as a reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News, he worked the same streets and stories as Mumia Abu-Jamal. He was his… Full Transcript
It has been eight years now since the massacre; eight years since the carnage on Osage Avenue; eight years since an urban Holocaust which stole 11 human lives; eight years since the unjust encagement of… Full Transcript
Read by Willam Kunstler When I hear politicians bellow about getting rough on crime and barking out, “Three strikes, you’re out!” several images come to mind. I think of how quickly the tune changes when… Full Transcript
Emcee: William Kunstler is a longtime civil rights activist. He has long been active in First Amendment and civil rights cases. William Kunstler: Before I read my portion, I just want to indicate a couple… Full Transcript
Relatively tall, mountainous cheek bones, dimples like donuts and skin the color of Indian corn. She left life in the South for what was then the promised land up North. Although she lived, loved, raised… Full Transcript
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