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Genesis of What If
Steven Nicholson
Hello, this is Steven Lynette Nicholson again, here in Jackson, Michigan. Just promoting prisonradio.org, their greatness, their beauty, their sacrifice, just, you know, so. They sacrifice. Maybe somebody else can sacrifice and help them out.… Full Transcript
Please Know Me
Karen Brown
Hello, this is Karen. I’m recovering from surgery still and feeling a little rough, but today I wanted to share a poem that may give a little insight to who I am, and others. We’re… Full Transcript
A Collection of Poems
Steven Nicholson
Hello. This is Steven again, in Jackson, Michigan. Got a few poems for you guys today. Support prisonradio.org, of course, definitely worth it. They’re doing awesome things. This first poem is called “Steven Meaning Remix.”… Full Transcript
Inside Looking Out
Karen Brown
I’m on the inside looking out, watching life pass by. Dying in a prison cell, asking myself why. Young, dumb, drugs, manipulated.Wound up in this place. Family, friends, sit at home, tears upon their face.… Full Transcript
If There Were No Police
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
If there were no police, there would be more peace, No more violent deceased, the violence would cease. This ain’t fantasy, it’s fact. With their feet on our back, The pigs are the ones holding… Full Transcript
Energy
Faluch Bigsby
Hello, folks, today I want to talk about energy. I want to talk about us being receptive to energy and us putting energy into the universe. Everybody has read on these cosmic lines of energy… Full Transcript
Confessions of an Addict
Izell Robinson
I am Izell Robinson, Minnesota inmate number 210006. Today, I want to present a piece called “Confessions of an Addict.” I’ve evaded pain for far too long. At least I thought I was by distracting… Full Transcript
Contraband Strip Search
Peter “Pitt” Mukuria
This is a Comrade Pitt. I’m calling in with a commentary. This story is about an article which was by the Virginia newspaper, how they reported how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed their most contraband, namely… Full Transcript
It Gets Real
Dontie Mitchell
Currently, I have seven young guys here at Great Meadow under my wing as fraternal members of UFD [Ujaamaa Fraternal Dynasty]. There’s Dolo – 21, RP – 21, Leaky – 20, Zero – 19, Jay… Full Transcript
The DOC Goes Cuckoo
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“The DOC Goes Cuckoo.” It began with a 10-day lockdown, almost 50,000 men and women held in 24-hour solitary confinement for almost two weeks in their cell. Why? Ostensibly because of several dozen staffers who… Full Transcript
Public Health
Charles Karim Diggs
My name is Charles Karim Diggs, calling from, uh, Pennsylvania, Graterford prison. And, uh, this additional, uh, topic I would like to talk about public health. There is a public health problem in America, which… Full Transcript
Essay
Omar Askia Ali
My name is Edward Sistrunk. I’m known as Omar Askia Ali. I’ve been incarcerated since 1971, tried twice by an all-white jury for a murder robbery case that I had nothing to do with. The… Full Transcript
Ronald C. White
The Cost of Loss
Mumia Interviewed About Marijuana on Kiss the Sky Radio
Dark Days
America’s So-Called Humanitarian Intervention Wars Are an Utter Failure
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“America’s So-Called Humanitarian Intervention Wars Are an Utter Failure,” By Shakaboona. If America’s humanitarian intervention wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria were to bring the people of those nations humanitarian aid, democracy, peace, and… Full Transcript
Afeni Shakur 1947-2016
Mumia Abu-Jamal
She was born Alice Faye Williams in the dusty little town of Lumberton, North Carolina – January 10, 1947. A dimpled little Black girl, who grew into a petite young revolutionary known as Afeni Shakur,… Full Transcript
The U.S. Government’s Conspiracy to Destroy Black Communities
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Since the 1980s, Africans in America have known of the United States government’s criminal, genocidal conspiracy to destroy the minority Black national community through its infamous domestic War on Drugs policy against Black people, which… Full Transcript
Laughter echoes off the walls as blood spills. Who will be the next victim as taxpayers unknowingly fund and supply the torture and abuse of incarcerated people? Not only are federal agencies, such as the Immigration… Full Transcript