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Black Woman and Man United
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Who’s been the key to our survival since our arrival on western shoresIn scores of slave ship holdsUnder the whip to be sold,But now, when told history is flipped to deny her role,Her very soul… Full Transcript
A Literal Matter of History
Mumia Abu-Jamal
When I was a young man (a boy really), I found barber shops to be fascinating places, for there, men gathered in an air of relaxed familiarity, and discussed things they didn’t do elsewhere. I… Full Transcript
Hip Hop Radio’s Production and Enablers
Jason Goudlock
Hip Hop Radio’s Profiteers and Enablers,” by Ohio political prisoner, Jason Goudlock. During rap music’s infancy in the early 1980s, nearly all the poetic rap songs, the boom bap music, played on hip hop radio… Full Transcript
The Money Scheme
Omar Askia Ali
It is becoming well known that prisons are big business, thanks to the internet and other informable output. Our society is more breadth for the schemes of the status quo to hoodwink the populace into… Full Transcript
Images From Ferguson
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Images from Ferguson by Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall. In the wake of the police murder of unarmed Black teen Michael Brown, there are powerful images emerging from the Ferguson Missouri Rebellion, images reminiscent of the Black… Full Transcript
Mumia Abu-Jamal In Conversation With Fred Hampton Jr. (2005)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Fred Hampton Jr: Okay, this Chairman Fred, coming to you not from no TNT or no NBC, but live and direct from POCC [Prisoners of Conscience Committee]. On the Block Report. We’ll be doing a… Full Transcript
Her name was Bariki Hall Shabazz, but I knew her as “Maestra,” my music teacher. Her community knew her as “Sister Bariki” or “Mama Bariki,” a Black woman who, as the old saying goes, was… Full Transcript