This is Ronald Hampton. I’m a 23-year veteran retired police officer and Executive Director of the National Black Police Association. Mumia’s voice threatens the smooth and orderly function of both state-sanctioned murder and modern slavery.… Full Transcript
American mass media is a marvel of technology. It is whiz-bang, sparkle-glitter, and satellite wizardry. It is a master plan of methods to communicate in a pauper’s worth of substance. With such technology, how are… Full Transcript
This is Cornel West. Will we ever listen to and learn from our bloodstained prophets? After over 15 years of nightmarish jail conditions, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s soul is not only intact, but still flourishing, just as… Full Transcript
In every phase and facet of national life, there’s a war being waged on America’s poor. In social policy, poor mothers are targeted for criminal sanctions for acts, if committed by mothers of higher economic… Full Transcript
My name is Mumia Abu-Jamal. I’m a journalist, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and an African-American. I live in the fastest growing public housing tract in America. In 1981, I was a reporter for… Full Transcript
To Edith L. and William H., two Southern souls, one dimpled, high cheek-boned, the color and aroma of sweet potatoes; the other short, muscular, coffee-color, sans cream, embodiment of gruff love, auraed by cigar-smoke. Fillies,… Full Transcript
I cannot imagine what it must feel like to have your son in prison.To know that he could be murdered by the state, legitimately, legally. And all you would have left are your memories. To… Full Transcript
This statement was recorded at Radio Havana in Cuba in 1998 and featured on “All Things Censored: Vol. 1, 1998” by Mumia Abu-Jamal. Full Transcript
My name is Mumia Abu-Jamal. I’m a journalist, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and an African American. I live in the fastest-growing public housing tract in America. In 1981, I was a reporter for… 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 eleven human lives, eight years since the unjust encagement of… Full Transcript
The name Eddie Hatcher is widely known and respected by the people. It is hated by the system. For Hatcher, a Tuscarora Lumbee Native, along with his fellow Tim Jacobs, brought national attention to the… Full Transcript
“George Jackson was my hero. He set a standard for prisoners, political prisoners, for people. He showed the love, the strength, the revolutionary fervor that’s characteristic of any soldier for the people. He inspired prisoners… Full Transcript
“That justice is a blind Goddess, is a thing to which we Blacks are wise. Her bandage hides two festering sores that once perhaps were eyes.” Poem called “Justice” by Langston Hughes. Elmer Geronimo Pratt… Full Transcript
The brutal police bludgeoning of Black Detroit father Malice Green has illustrated the battle lines of the so called “War on Drugs” could more accurately be drawn around a war on Blacks. Published reports surfacing… 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
A woman working to feed the homeless gets involved in a confrontation with transit cops down on a major metropolitan subway. She’s accosted, manhandled, thrown to the ground, and held under restraint. Another woman has… Full Transcript
In a case known as Strickland v. Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court drastically narrowed the range of challenges to the effectiveness and competence of counsel at criminal trials. The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution… Full Transcript
Every day in America, the trek continues, a Black march to death row. In Pennsylvania, where Afro-Americans constitute 9% of the population, well over 60% of its death row inhabitants are Black. Across the nation,… Full Transcript
The federal trial of four Los Angeles cops, forced by the public orgy of rebellion and rage, which rocked the city a year before in response to acquittal stemming from the brutal Rodney King beating,… Full Transcript
In every phase and facet of national life, there’s a war being waged on America’s poor. In social policy, poor mothers are targeted for criminal sanctions for acts, if committed by mothers of higher economic… Full Transcript
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