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Imam Jamil: Return to the Source
Mumia Abu-Jamal
His name rings with the clang of an icon, perhaps because he was. Known as Imam Jamil al Amin, he lived at least two lives as an icon, his pre-conversion life as a Black nationalist,… Full Transcript
A Call for Justice: Leonard Peltier’s Release
Donald Hooker (C-Note)
Hello. This is Donald C-Note Hooker, foundational Black American, prison artist and advocate for justice. Today, I want to speak about Leonard Peltier, a man who like me, will face a parole board in 2026.… Full Transcript
December in Chicago
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“December in Chicago.” It was an early morning in December, 1969. When a joint FBI-Chicago Police crew raided an apartment building ostensibly for weapons charges. In fact, they came to kill Fred Hampton, Chairman of… Full Transcript
Is the US Government Assassinating Black Youth Leaders of the Ferguson Rebellion?
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Who would have ever thought that America’s domestic Cointelpro assassination program of Black Leaders from the 1960s and ‘70s, most notably the assassinations of Medgar Evers, Minister Malcolm X, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,… Full Transcript
Message for Black Radical Tradition Philly Conference
The Genius of Huey P. Newton
Mumia Abu-Jamal
To those of us who were alive – and sentient, the name Huey P. Newton evokes an era of mass resistance, of Black popular protest and of the rise of revolutionary organizations across the land.… 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
Revolutionary Visions Wide Open
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
My name is Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, Indiana political prisoner. “Revolutionary Visions Wide Open.” The struggles here in America, of the 1960s and 70s, sparked the rise of courageous freedom fighters who had a unique… Full Transcript
Republic of Surveillance
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The news that American intelligence agencies were listening to the personal cell phone calls of leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel broke like a thunder clap. It seems surreal, for surely a German head of… Full Transcript
COINTELPROs Then and Now
Before Guantanamo, Was The Black Panthers (Version B)
Before Guantanamo, Was The Black Panthers (Version A)
Of Presidents and Princes (Version A)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For years, radical activists and journalists, especially from the Black liberation movement, have claimed that the U.S. government was bent on reconstructing the dreaded COINTELPRO, or Counter Intelligence Program, with its blatant illegalities, its intrusions… 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
It has been one month since the NYPD and the U.S. government came after me, accusing me of setting fire to police vehicles belonging to the 83rd precinct in Brooklyn. According to them, $800,000 worth… Full Transcript