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The Awakening
Wilbert Sanders
This is Jazz the Poet with “The Awakening”. Our society is infested with vicious killers,Stick-up men, hustlers and drug dealers, Elevating crime to all-time highs. Every 30 seconds someone dies. Teenagers tow Uzis, semi automatics,… Full Transcript
The Killing Fields
Wilbert Sanders
This is Wilbert Sanders as Jazz the Poet with a piece I call “The Killing Fields.” Instead of providing safety to communities, Police are executing Blacks and minorities. Inner cities are concrete killing fields With… Full Transcript
The Invisible Man
Wilbert Sanders
My name is Wilbert Sanders, known as ‘Jazz the Poet,’ with a piece I call “The Invisible Man.” As I anticipate and impatiently wait To be discharged from these walls of hate, There are many… Full Transcript
Poem about Mumia
Bloodlines
Mondo We Langa
When we escaped the plantations of Florida And ran among the trees Toward swampy ground To trudge through mud and memories Of bondage and of blood, We found your arms slung open wide, As gates… Full Transcript
I Am Free: Poem for Hugo Pinell
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
This is a poem that I would like to share in memory of Hugo Pinell. I am free. Don’t grieve for me, for now I am free. I am following the path that God laid… Full Transcript
Signs of the Times
Safir Chuma Asafo
This piece is called “Signs of the Times,” by Safir Chuma Asafo, reporting from Pennsylvania Penitentiary at Huntington. Beware, the beginning of the end is here. So, prepare for Tiananmen Square Everywhere, in total fear… Full Transcript
Capital
Safir Chuma Asafo
This piece is called “Capital” by Safir Chuma Asafo, reporting from Pennsylvania Penitentiary at Huntingdon. As the world turns on its axis, Spiraling backwards into a time and space Held captive by the agents of… Full Transcript
Amiri Baraka Poet on Fire, 1934-2014
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The name Amiri Baraka has been known to me since my teens, when I was a member of the Black Panther Party. His name was often linked with that of Dr. Maulana Karenga, credited with… Full Transcript
Gil Scott Heron, Radical Poet 1939-2011
Howard Zinn Memorial
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Poem for a playwright, Howard Zinn. Long, the people’s historian Who taught and learned life’s lessons, Struggle, resistance, joy and pain, With impish smile and love of life, Fed with knowledge and art. From warrior… Full Transcript
A Ranch Where Hope Grows
1. I was Born With Two Tongues
Mumia Abu-Jamal
My name is Mumia Abu Jamal. I’m a journalist, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and an African American. I live in the fastest growing public housing tract in America. In 1981, I was a… Full Transcript
