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Manny’s Attempted Murder

Mumia Abu-Jamal

This is a text drawn from my first book, Live from Death Row,”Manny’s Attempted Murder.” “At first glance, the guy looks like a black fire plug, short, coffee black, with a clean shaven, glistening dome.… Full Transcript

What is PREP?

Dortell Williams

California prisoners love PREP. You know why? Because PREP offers faith and hope. PREP stands for Partnership For Re-Entry Program. What PREP does is to offer rehabiltative correspondence lessons to prisoners thristy for self-help and… Full Transcript

Clarity in Our Use of the Term Racism: Part 4

Mondo We Langa

This is part four of the serious “Clarity in Our Use of the Term Racism.” The enslaving of people of color, the invasion and occupation of their lands, the use of weapons technology in the… Full Transcript

Clarity in Our Use of the Term Racism: Part 5

Mondo We Langa

This is part five of “Clarity in Our Use of the Term Racism.” When I began this series back in December, that is in the Omaha Star newspaper, it was with the idea that the… Full Transcript

The Movement For Justice Against Police Violence

Mumia Abu-Jamal

“The Movement for Justice Against Police Violence,” published by City Lights, an Open Media series.  What makes a movement a movement? What social forces come together to make it cohere, to build it into something… Full Transcript

Clarity In Our Use of the Term Racism: Part 3

Mondo We Langa

Part three of the series “Clarity in Our Use of the Term ‘Racism’.” Sometimes wearing metal helmets and/or body armor and carrying firearms and/or bringing cannons and other weaponry that was unknown to the people… Full Transcript

Politicians Servants of the Wealthy

Mumia Abu-Jamal

It is impossible to look at the current crop of political presidential aspirants and not be struck by their level of subservience to the wants and needs of the owner class. Like Puppies panting in… Full Transcript

From Katrina to Ferguson

Mumia Abu-Jamal

It’s been 10 years since the watery carnage of Katrina, and 1 year since the fiery rage lit the night skies of Ferguson Missouri, and between the two harrowing events lay the state of Black… Full Transcript

It’s Torture in Here Too

Kenneth Hartman

The American Psychology Association recently issued a scathing report of the collusion between members of their organization and government torturers as a part of the War on Terror, begun under the second Bush administration. The… Full Transcript

The Nation of Islam Calls for Million Man March to Demand Justice or Else

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

The National Representative of the Nation of Islam, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, has called on African American, Latino/ a Native American, and Caucasian peoples to attend the coming October 10th gathering of the 20th… Full Transcript

Lamenting the Corruption of Empire

Mumia Abu-Jamal

It may surprise you to know that there’s another book coming out. A work of history inspired by the late Howard Zinn. A work written and co-authored by myself, Mumia Abu-Jamal and my co-author Stephen… Full Transcript

Messin’ With Major

Mumia Abu-Jamal

His name is Major — (his real name)–Major Tillery of West Philadelphia. Although he had a reputation as a gangster, in prison such things matter little. It’s as a jailhouse lawyer that he shook the… Full Transcript

Another Forum to Express Injustice

Khalil Bennet

On April 28, 2015, two prison guards and a sergeant brutally assaulted a Black prisoner. The immediate response was awry within seconds. Five guards were seriously injured, and many more were physically hurt. Roughly two… Full Transcript