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Breonna’s Deathbed
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Breonna’s Deathbed.” Her name, Breonna Taylor, has become a call to be chanted and shouted at protests now joined by that of many other black people who were killed by distinct with perfect impunity. A… Full Transcript
December in Chicago
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“December in Chicago.” It was an early morning in December, 1969. When a joint FBI-Chicago Police crew raided an apartment building ostensibly for weapons charges. In fact, they came to kill Fred Hampton, Chairman of… Full Transcript
FBI Spies and Spying
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Of FBI Spies and Spying.” In light of the empty dud of the fall of the Mueller report, we have heard repeated charges of outrage that alleged FBI spying of the Trump campaign and administration.… Full Transcript
The Black Panther Party on Film
Mumia Abu-Jamal
When the Black Panther Party emerged in northern California, Oct. 1966, the images that were projected from that early period were arresting. Young, attractive Black men and women, armed for self and communal defense, openly… Full Transcript
Is the US Government Assassinating Black Youth Leaders of the Ferguson Rebellion?
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
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
Note We Want Freedom #7
Solidarity
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Solidarity. The word has been spoken for the better part of a century, at least. Like many words of such ancient vintage, what it means today may vary from what it meant at the dawn… Full Transcript
Message for Black Radical Tradition Philly Conference
Operation Restore Trust?
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The flames of Ferguson have eaten their fill, and its eerie glow has cast light on how impotent are the Black political class, who cannot solve a problem that is a bane of Black existence.… Full Transcript
The Black Panther Party: The Reign of Youth
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Black Panther Party, the Reign of Youth. For many people, while the name Black Panther Party may be familiar, few facts beyond it are. There may be some hazy familiarity with the black and… Full Transcript
This is Comrade Pitt, the Minister of Labor for the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party, so this is an essay by a fellow comrade Kevin Rashid Johnson titled “Join the PSM, the Panther Solidarity Movement.”… Full Transcript