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Waiting For My Turn
Reginald Sinclair Lewis
This essay is called, “Waiting For My Turn” by Reginald Sinclair Lewis. Some of us have read and seen local or national news reports about the brilliant behind-the-scenes work of Innocence Projects that led to… Full Transcript
A Protest is Coming: No Justice, No Peace
Harold Cunningham
A protest is coming, screaming Black Lives Matter, and it goes like this. A protest is coming, like a New York subway train, all races, ages on board united as one, from all around the… Full Transcript
Straight Out of Memphis
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Straight out of Memphis. It could have been anywhere, but fate chose Memphis, Tennessee, the place where Martin Luther King, Jr. breathed his last breath, and a musician named Elvis was crowned king. Memphis. In… Full Transcript
Jayland Walker’s Execution
Peter “Pitt” Mukuria
Hey, this is comrade Pitt. So after watching a video of Jayland Walker’s execution by Akron police, to say my blood was boiling is an understatement. He did evade police, but that is not a… Full Transcript
What Is Justice?
Peter “Pitt” Mukuria
“What is Justice?” As I sit in the cell, letting my hands lean, pondering in anger in what has come to be called justice. Thoughts racing a hundred miles an hour, furious that a wannabe… Full Transcript
For Tribunal for Popular Justice
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“For Tribunal for Popular Justice.” A year ago, the nation and much of the world saw an explosion of popular support for laws against police terrorism against the people sparked by the film of the… Full Transcript
Free Ashley Diamond
Uhuru Rowe
Greetings of peace, love, solidarity, and collective resistance. This is Comrade Uhuru Rowe. Prison state number 1131545, speaking to you from the belly of the Virginia prison system on this third day of October, 2021.… Full Transcript
A Queen’s Support
Jamil Pirant
Okay, I know that it’s the women that’s the biggest support to mankind, period. And I can testify to this a hundred times over, not just a queen being a woman but the queen being… Full Transcript
Sentencing of Derek Chauvin
Derrick Gibson
Hi, my name is Derrick Gibson, a prisoner incarcerated in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The sentencing of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin is again a travesty of injustice by a brazenly racist system, that the… Full Transcript
On Juneteenth
Christopher “Naeem” Trotter
This is Chris Trotter, live from Wabash Valley Correctional Facility inside the belly of the beast. And, um, I feel good today. Uh, we’re celebrating Juneteenth, uh it’s the federal holiday, uh, and it marks… Full Transcript
No Lives Matter Under Capitalism
Christopher “Naeem” Trotter
This is Christopher Trotter, live from inside the belly of the beast in Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, Carlisle, IN. Recently, I had a discussion about black lives matter. I was like: “Wow, it’s a whole… Full Transcript
Gun Violence Against Children
Izell Robinson
I am Izell Robinson, Minnesota, inmate number 21006. An innocent man confined within the quadrilaterals of systemic injustice fighting to be heard and affect positive change. Yet to accomplish success, I need you the listeners… Full Transcript
Lyrical Verse
Izell Robinson
I am Izell Robinson, Minnesota inmate number 320006, an innocent man confined within the quadrilaterals of systemic injustice, fighting to be heard and affect positive change. Yet, to accomplish success, I need you, the listeners,… Full Transcript
The Look
Spoon Jackson
It’s called “The Look” for the people who, uh, believe in one race, one world, one color, which is human. I tried not to speak on the murder by the Minnesota officers. The look on… Full Transcript
This Is Your World
Reginald Sinclair Lewis
I am Reginald Sinclair Lewis. “This piece is called: This Is Your World.” It is truly deeply moving to see throngs of anti-racist white Americans of all economic, educational, and social backgrounds shouting, “black lives… Full Transcript
Breonna’s Deathbed
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Breonna’s Deathbed.” Her name, Breonna Taylor, has become a call to be chanted and shouted at protests now joined by that of many other black people who were killed by distinct with perfect impunity. A… Full Transcript
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Between A Rock And A Hard Place.” As the nation’s two major political parties scramble for supremacy of this current political season, more is at stake than mere democracy. Black America faces inchoate choices which… Full Transcript
COVID-19 To Life
Joadanus Olivas
I call this “COVID-19 to Life.” I never believed that jailhouse rumor pertaining to a world catastrophe or an invasion on U.S. soil, which would prompt the correctional officers to go to each cell and… Full Transcript
The Other Women’s Movement
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“The Other Women’s Movement.” In the frenzied aftermath of the police killing asphyxiation of George Floyd, we have seen the emergence of a remarkable and sustained movement against racism and the state terror of police.… Full Transcript
Today I’m gonna do a original piece, a rap that I wrote titled, “Shattered Dreams on this Earth.” Watched them [unclear] of words right up off the street,As if Black Lives Matter stood for nothing,Like… Full Transcript