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9/11: Fifteen Years After
Mumia Featured on Democracy Now
Mumia Abu-Jamal
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We end today’s show with news that a federal judge has denied a request from former Black Panther and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal for a life-saving medication that could cure his hepatitis C. Mumia… Full Transcript
Dark Days
From In Here
Kenneth Hartman
Sometimes, after 36 years imprisoned, the view from in here is shrouded in mists of confusion and despair. Violence and death, repression and resistance, and the growing recognition there are fundamental issues still unresolved after… 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
All Life is Precious
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It was late 1973 or ’74, Eddie Africa recalls, when MOVE began their waves of protests against the animal industries; industries, yes, money-making industries. I’d have to admit, I never thought of it that way.… Full Transcript
When A Child Dies
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Cleveland officials announce no charges to be filed in the police killing of 12-year old Tamir Rice. There is something shattering about the death -the killing – of a child. When a child dies, the… Full Transcript
Tamir
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Question: When is a child not a child? Answer: When it’s a Black child. That question and answer came to me when I heard that the police killing of 12 – year- old Tamir Rice… Full Transcript
I Am Free: Poem for Hugo Pinell
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
This is a poem that I would like to share in memory of Hugo Pinell. I am free. Don’t grieve for me, for now I am free. I am following the path that God laid… Full Transcript
Charles Hanlen: A Human Being
Bryant Arroyo
“Charles Hanlen: A Human Being,” by Roger Buell. Chuck was a large, overly gregarious man in his mid 40s. I didn’t like Chuck very much. We met on the day of my transfer to SCI… Full Transcript
When Suicide Ain’t
16. Mother Loss
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Relatively tall, mountainous cheek bones, dimples like donuts and skin the color of Indian corn. She left life in the South for what was then the promised land up North. Although she lived, loved, raised… Full Transcript
It has happened again. And again. And again. And again. And again. A cop arrives on a scene. An order is barked (or oinked) And, in a flash, a person is dead. More than likely,… Full Transcript