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Radical Politics
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Radical politics.” I’m often amused when I read, hear, or see a politician criticize his opponent as radical. That’s meant to isolate his opponent somehow weird, but guess what? Radicals are as common as crabgrass… Full Transcript
An Abolitionist Life
Mumia Abu-Jamal
What does it mean to call oneself an abolitionist? The word doesn’t mean today what it meant 150 years ago. Then, it meant an end to what some have called ‘America’s Original Sin’–Slavery. Today? Well,… Full Transcript
Black August 2003
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Black August has many markers throughout the long history of resistance in the Americas. There are more than we could ever recount here. But here are a few that are important and undeniable events that… Full Transcript
Memorial Day 2016
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Governments determine what day becomes a holiday. They declare what they will and won’t honor. They close their offices on such days, and an obedient media sets its programming in lockstep. For example, on Memorial… Full Transcript
Antonin Scalia 1936-2016
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Justice Antonin Scalia, of the U.S. Supreme Court, famous for his quips and his judicial opinions, is no more. The associate justice appointed to the courts by President Reagan in 1986 was coming up on… Full Transcript
The United States Constitution Permits Slavery
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
The United States Constitution Permits Slavery by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. For the past 150 years, the American government has perpetrated a fraud on its citizens that it abolished slavery of Africans in America by passing… Full Transcript
On Reconstruction (Lecture)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Dear fellow students, I thank you and your professor, Dr. Fernandez, for this brief opportunity to share some time with you as you study what, I think, was the pivotal point in time for the United… Full Transcript
Generals and Presidents (Version B)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The recent Obama-McChrystal tête-à-tête, which resulted in the general submitting his resignation and the President accepting it, is but an historical echo from conflicts between the army and its civilian leaders for generations. When Abe… Full Transcript
It was a sight that will be long remembered: hundreds, then thousands of men scaling the walls of the U.S. Capitol like soldiers on a web. Then ripping, tearing, shredding all they could touch, all… Full Transcript