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An Evening of Freedom: Alice Walker
Alice Walker: (Applause) I grew up in Georgia, and you kind of had to be active to get out of there, at the time. Anyway, I’m so happy to see you. It’s really wonderful to… Full Transcript
Alice Walker Speaks
Alice Walker: (Applause) I grew up in Georgia, and you kind of had to be active to get out of there, at the time. Anyway, I’m so happy to see you. It’s really wonderful to… Full Transcript
Goode Street
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Goode Street.” Just a few days ago, a street in West Philadelphia was renamed W. Wilson Goode Senior Way. Members of Philadelphia City Council approved the change months ago in honor of the city’s first… Full Transcript
Message for Black Radical Tradition Philly Conference
The Day the Philly Police Bombed MOVE
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
May 13, 1985 is a day that I will never forget. It was the day the infamously racist Philadelphia Police Department and the city’s first African American mayor, Wilson Goode, dropped a C4 explosive bomb… Full Transcript
Unsaid at Selma
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Who can question whether President Barack Obama is a master when it comes to speeches? Such a quality literally put him on the map when he mesmerized the crowd at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.… Full Transcript
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 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
May 13th 1985 – Meanings
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For years, I’ve written on the meanings of May 13, 1985. The murders, the massacre, the bombing and the burnings of the MOVE organization in Philadelphia; the unjust incarceration of Ramona Africa, and the impunity… Full Transcript
Parole Time for MOVE 9 (Long Version)
Guiness Records: Massacre or Suicide
Failed System (Man is Bastard 4)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The muted public response to the mass murder of MOVE members has set the stage for acceptable state violence against radicals, against Blacks, and against all those deemed socially unacceptable. In the 60s and 70s,… Full Transcript
Absence of Power
Mumia Abu-Jamal
A woman working to feed the homeless gets involved in a confrontation with transit cops down in a major metropolitan subway. She’s accosted, manhandled, thrown to the ground, and held under restraint. Another woman has… Full Transcript
“Chuck Africa Goes Home.” For over 40 years. Chuckie Africa of the famed MOVE Nine, veterans of the MOVE confrontation of August 8th, 1978, has been imprisoned in state joints across Pennsylvania, serving what is… Full Transcript