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Michael Parenti ¡Presente!
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Michael Parenti ¡Presente! Michael Parenti was a wonderful writer for his work was peppered with wit, insight, and a deep well of learning. Years ago, I received one of his books that I found particularly interesting,… Full Transcript
Bob Law – Master Griot
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The name Bob Law truly needs no introduction, yet I’ll try. Tall, outspoken, and well-opinioned, he was a star of talk radio, notably Black talk radio. As such, he took up issues great and small,… Full Transcript
Romaine Chip Fitzgerald Returns To His Ancestors
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Romaine Chip Fitzgerald returns to his ancestors.” The name Romaine Chip Fitzgerald is perhaps not widely known except for his supporters. In his wild youth decades ago, he was a teenage member of the LA… Full Transcript
A Woman Called Maya 1928-2014
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Maya Angelou had to be the name of a poet. It is too perfect, too lyrical, to fit any other personality. Born on April 4, 1928, as Marguerite Johnson in St Louis, Missouri, she blazed… Full Transcript
Herman Wallace: Gone But Not Forgotten
Shaka Zulu
The New Afrikan Black Panther Party calls upon the workers, students, prisoners, and street groups to honor Comrade Herman Wallace, an all-the-way revolutionary, an elder of the national liberation struggle, who died three days after… Full Transcript
Herman Wallace: Revolutionary
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The long and tortured life of Herman Wallace, of the famed Angola 3, was meant to terrorize us, to stifle the resistance that flamed throughout the Black nation and many others across the country during… Full Transcript
Chinua Achebe 1930-2013
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The brilliant light of a Nigerian master writer has gone out, and the world is poorer for it. Chinua Achebe, whose stunning novel Things Fall Apart opened the doorway to the voices of traditional, ancestral… Full Transcript
Vampire Holiday: The Passing of Chavez
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has brought out the malicious and carnal glee of the corporate press, who report breathlessly not only on his mortal passing but an end to the Bolivarian Revolution.… Full Transcript
Gil Scott Heron, Radical Poet 1939-2011
Memories of Safiya
Mumia Abu-Jamal
This is an excerpt from an introduction to an upcoming collection of Safiya’s essays, prepared by her daughter, Wanda. It goes like this: For me, reading the thoughts of Safiya Asya Bukhari is a bittersweet… Full Transcript
The name Khalid Raheem may not ring many bells, but to those who knew him, his life was one of lifelong struggle for the Black nation as a revolutionary, as a Muslim convert, and as… Full Transcript