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Joan Gibbs Esquire Presente
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Her name was Joan Gibbs, a lawyer by training, an activist by instinct, and a woman wholived her life in social movements, fighting for social change. She was born on January 17,1953, in Harlem, New… Full Transcript
A Day of Peace and Non-Violence
Eddie Treadwell
Mr. Eddie Treadwell calling again. I’m from Kinross Correctional Facility here in Michigan prison. And we just had implemented a program of nonviolence, a day of peace, a day of healing on the 22nd of… Full Transcript
Archbishop Desmond Tutu 1931-2021
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1931-2021.” Almost a century ago, a little African boy was born to a small family in a small town where gold mining was the chief industry. The town was [inaudible] in what… Full Transcript
bell hooks: feminist icon
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Feminist icon: presente! She was born Gloria Watkins 69 years ago in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on September 25th, 1952. But the world knew her by pen name, bill hooks, and readers recognize that name by its… Full Transcript
Remembering Glen Ford
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Glen Ford, black griot and journalist remembered.” For readers and listeners across America and around the world, the name Glen Ford was not a strange one, for they read and heard the voice of a… Full Transcript
Consuewella Africa: Presente!
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Consuewella Africa: Presente!” For many, the name Consuewella Africa is like many of the Africas: about interchangeable, for unless you spent time with them, how could you know them? Consuewella, called Swella by her MOVE… 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
Sister Marpessa, A Griot Passes
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Sister Marpessa, A Griot Passes.” In African traditional societies, the griot was one who held in memory the history of the tribe, its kings, its wars, its great events that mark it as a community,… Full Transcript
John Conyers: Congressman
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“John Conyers: Congressman.” John Conyers spent a lifetime as a member of Congress. And despite his fall from grace, his time in office was deeply historic. He was one of the founders of the Congressional… Full Transcript
Toni Morrison, Master Writer — 1931-2019
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Toni Morrison, Master Writer, 1931-2019.” Her name, Toni Morrison, evokes something close to veneration for readers. Her book most rooted in the savagery of the U.S. South during slavery days gave names, faces, and voices… Full Transcript
Eyes-Passing of a Healer
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Eyes-Passing of a Healer.” The name Dr. Patricia Bath is perhaps unfamiliar with you as it was to me just a few days ago, but a colleague shared obituaries from several newspapers, and I could… Full Transcript
Aretha 1942-2018
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Aretha 1942-2018.” With one unmistakable name, a musical legend was born: Aretha. Born on March 25th, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, raised in Detroit, daughter of the famous gospel preacher Reverend Cecil L. Franklin, she was… Full Transcript
Goodnight Kiilu
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Goodnight Kiilu.” To people in California’s north, the name Kiilu Nyasha is familiar like an aunt or another relative. To them, she was a voice of resistance heard on public radio, mostly heard on her… Full Transcript
Ursula K Le Guin
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Ursula K. LeGuin, 1929-2018. Her name was Ursula LeGuin, born in Berkeley, California, October 21st, 1929, daughter of a noted anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber. But her name is known by her novels, many in the field… Full Transcript
Message for Lynne Stewart Event
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Long live John Africa. On the MOVE, y’all. I greet you all from slow death row. We join you today in memory of Lynne Stewart Esq., a people’s lawyer in the finest tradition of that… Full Transcript
There are remarkable men and women in the world who did something extraordinary intheir lives for which they will be long remembered. And then there are quite extraordinarypeople like Marty Goodman who did many things,… Full Transcript