This essay was hand-written in a solitary confinement cell by a man awaiting execution. I would like to read you one of his illuminating commentaries, that Senator Bob Dole and National Public Radio have tried… Full Transcript
Many Americans have a skewed perception of Japan. As skewed, perhaps, as many foreigners have of America, many of whom seem to expect cowboys and Indians. Of Japan, the image arises of the feudal Samurai,… Full Transcript
Mumia Abu-Jamal 0:00 Dr. William Birch is the President of the Medical Society of Eastern Pennsylvania. And the 190-member organization is making its feelings known in reference to Sara Allen nursing home situation. Dr. William… Full Transcript
Speaker OneOn A Move and Long Live John Africa. Mumia is in prison, on death row because he refused to stop telling the truth; because he wouldn’t stop exposing the injustice and treachery of this… Full Transcript
Mumia Abu-Jamal: What if good old mother earth had only 30 days till the big last blast? That’s the hub of the wheel around which a humorous and very human play brought to us by… Full Transcript
The boycott at Center City Philadelphia’s fashionable Bijou Café continues. Mumia’s Abu-Jamal was there. For the second time this week, nearly 100 protesters and supporters of the United Black Concert Promoters of America joined air… Full Transcript
You’ve been doing what you’ve been doing for quite a, quite a, long time. By that I mean your music, you know, for quite a long time in the states. And there were people who… Full Transcript
(Abu-Jamal) No reggae artist in the world has attracted the loving accolades of the dreadlocked Marley. Marley is truly a missionary and his message — one of global black redemption — is contained within the… Full Transcript
March 18, 2000 After several brutal anti-LGBTQ+ murders, including 21-year-old gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in 1998 and the beheading of 39-year old gay and homeless man Eddie Northington in 1999, Mumia Abu-Jamal… Full Transcript
Shortly before reading A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, I read what is regarded as one of the “finest one-volume chronicles” of the U.S. Civil War (according to the Wall Street Journal blurb on the cover),… Full Transcript
South Africa, the beautiful yet haunted land of racist repression most vile, has marched past its Western neighbor the United States. As its highest court, the 11 member Constitutional Court, found the death penalty as… Full Transcript
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
I’m Assata Shakur. The first time I heard a tape of one of Mumia’s radio broadcasts, it was the first time I fully understood why the United States government was so intent on putting him… 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
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