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Leotis Jones Holmesburg Prison
Mumia Abu-Jamal
When Black History Month rolls around, many are tempted to tell great stories of great heroes and heroines, Black warriors fighting for freedom against vile racists. This isn’t that kind of story. Years ago, when… Full Transcript
Kerry Shakaboona Marshall Reacts to Supreme Decision Interviewed by Noelle Hanrahan
The MOVE Sisters: Freedom Now
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It’s a fact that the U.S. is an Ahistorical society. If we go more than 20 minutes down time’s road, most Americans will have forgotten all; in a few weeks; a month? Forget it. Americans… Full Transcript
Message for Black Radical Tradition Philly Conference
The Department of Justice Can’t Give Justice to Black People
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
August 8th, Again
Allen’s Lament
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The great black writer James Baldwin once said, “They saw themselves as others had seen them. They had been formed by the images made of them by those who had had the deepest necessity to… Full Transcript
17. William Kunstler Introduction
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Emcee: William Kunstler is a longtime civil rights activist. He has long been active in First Amendment and civil rights cases. William Kunstler: Before I read my portion, I just want to indicate a couple… Full Transcript
A House is Not A Home
Mumia Abu-Jamal
She sits in utter stillness. Her coffee brown features, as if set in obsidian, as if a mask, barely perceptible; the tears threatening to overflow that dark, proud maternal face, a face held still by… Full Transcript
Dear Brothers & Sisters: I greet you as taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, with the words of peace: As-Salaam Alaykum! I thank Brother Minister Farrakhan for his generosity and kindness: for his invitation that… Full Transcript