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Black August 2003
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Black August has many markers throughout the long history of resistance in the Americas. There are more than we could ever recount here. But here are a few that are important and undeniable events that… Full Transcript
Pennsylvania Courts Must Extend Parole to 550 Child Offenders Serving Life Without Parole Sentences
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In the aftermath of Miller v. Alabama, a case that abolished automatic life without parole sentencing of children convicted of murder, the question has arisen whether its holding in Miller is retroactive to child offenders… Full Transcript
Judicial Fury
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Montgomery v. Louisiana decision, ruled that its earlier 2012 ruling in the Miller v. Alabama case, (limiting life sentences when it came to juvenile defendants) was indeed retroactive… Full Transcript
Bloodlines
Mondo We Langa
When we escaped the plantations of Florida And ran among the trees Toward swampy ground To trudge through mud and memories Of bondage and of blood, We found your arms slung open wide, As gates… Full Transcript
Pennsylvania The Keystone State
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In a matter of hours, voters from across Pennsylvania will go into the voting booth smug in the knowledge that they are this year’s Florida: those who will decide one way or another who will… Full Transcript
Living In The Shadow of Rome
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Who among us chose empire? Of the millions of Americans who were actually allowed to cast their vote, who among that number actually voted in favor of a foreign policy that required armed Americans to… Full Transcript
The State of Florida, as of 2012, held over 400 souls on its death row. In America, it was the second largest death row after California, which held over 700 men and women awaiting death… Full Transcript