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Affirmation by Assata Shakur
This is the poem, “Affirmation,” by Assata Shakur. I believe in living.I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine, Aha!In windmills, in waterfalls, Tricycles, and rocking chairs. And I believe… Full Transcript
Who I Am and What I Hate
Kevin Cooper
Who I am and what I hate by Kevin Cooper. I, Kevin Cooper, am an innocent African American man on death row at San Quentin prison. I am not now, nor have I ever been,… Full Transcript
We Who Are Oppressed
Kevin Cooper
We poor people, we African Americans, have been oppressed for so long and by so many different people that it honestly seems that oppression is all that we know. It appears that we who are… Full Transcript
Mandela Sanitized
Mumia Abu-Jamal
He was born “Rolihlahla” in July of 1918, in a nation of which he was not truly a citizen; into a country called the Union of South Africa, a part of the British Empire. The… Full Transcript
To Protest is a Right
Kevin Cooper
Frederick Douglass once said “It’s easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men.” The same can be said for women, as they are included in this oppression that has been going… Full Transcript
There are two kinds of nationalism: reactionary nationalism and revolutionary nationalism. Here is a question. Which one is conducive to liberation and freedom: the stripping of 200,000 Haitians of citizenship and deporting them, en masse,… Full Transcript