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Our Lives Matter by Rob G. Kelly: A Review
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Rob G. Kelly’s new work of poetry screams from its very cover: “Our Lives Matter!” In an era of the Black youth movement, often termed “Black Lives Matter” by the corporate press and in fact… Full Transcript
From Katrina to Ferguson
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It’s been 10 years since the watery carnage of Katrina, and 1 year since the fiery rage lit the night skies of Ferguson Missouri, and between the two harrowing events lay the state of Black… Full Transcript
Again 50 Years Later We Are Still Here
Shaka Zulu
Again, 50 years later, we are still here. We want to first say Panther love to all of you attending the 50th anniversary of the founding of the original Black Panther Party in 1966. Many of… Full Transcript
Ferguson Two: Contradictions Of The State
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
On August 9th, 2015, at the anniversary of the police murder of unarmed Black teen Michael Brown, at the Ferguson Rebellion, a militarized state of emergency has yet again been declared on the county of… Full Transcript
I Can’t Breathe
Safir Chuma Asafo
This is Asafo Chuma Asafo reporting from Huntington State Prison in Pennsylvania. I can’t breathe within the solitary confinement of this police state environment. Eleven times ignored cries, until my freedom of speech went silent. I can’t… Full Transcript
Ferguson
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Like a fever, the news broke, but unlike a fever, it brought no relief, for the news, from the perspective of the National Black community, wasn’t good. The twelve member grand jury in Ferguson, investigating… Full Transcript
The Not So Grand Jury
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In Ferguson, tensions are tighter than a drum in morbid anticipation of the decision of the grand jury in the fatal police shooting of Mike Brown, a local Black teenager. We have said “the decision… Full Transcript
One, Two, Three Ferguson’s
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For over a week, the media and millions of viewers and readers have been focused on the ever changing events of Ferguson, Missouri, where a local teenager, Michael Brown, was shot to death by a… Full Transcript
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