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Forty Years In The Wilderness

Mumia Abu-Jamal

It’s been 40 long years since the much-heralded “March on Washington.” Almost half a century, and what is our condition today? Our communities are ravaged from crushing poverty, crumbling schools, bumbling politicians, and brutal cops.… Full Transcript

The Bush Blair Doctrine

Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Iraq War is over. Or is it? With a spate of attacks that have cost American lives almost daily, the newly-minted general in charge of the region, Abu Zayd, has been forced to admit… Full Transcript

The Other Central Park Rapes

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Scholar-activist Angela Davis once wrote, “The ideological space for the proliferation of this racialized fear of crime has been opened by the transformation in international politics created by the fall of the European socialist countries.… Full Transcript

George W. Bush in Africa

Mumia Abu-Jamal

What in the world is George W. Bush doing in Africa? Rarely has a world leader seemed more lost, more ill at ease than the recent portrayal of the incumbent US president strolling around in… Full Transcript

Affirmative Distraction

Mumia Abu-Jamal

With a pair of cases announced days before their summer retirement, Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, the US Supreme Court decided the constitutionality of affirmative action, at least for the next generation. The… Full Transcript