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The Nation of Islam Calls for Million Man March to Demand Justice or Else
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
The National Representative of the Nation of Islam, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, has called on African American, Latino/ a Native American, and Caucasian peoples to attend the coming October 10th gathering of the 20th… Full Transcript
Again 50 Years Later We Are Still Here
Shaka Zulu
Again, 50 years later, we are still here. We want to first say Panther love to all of you attending the 50th anniversary of the founding of the original Black Panther Party in 1966. Many of… Full Transcript
Madiba Nelson Mandela
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
On December 5, 2003, former political prisoner and former South African President Nelson Mandela—affectionately referred to as “Madiba” (Father) by the South African people—has made his transition to the other side to be with our… Full Transcript
Black August 2015
Jaan Laaman
Black August: August 6, August 9, Black August 2015. Hiroshima, 70 years later, and the bomb still burns. Hi, this is Jaan Laaman, your political prisoner voice coming to you from the federal prison in… Full Transcript
Missing Marilyn Buck
A Message to the Black Lives Matter Movement II
Shaka Zulu
A message to the Black Lives Matter movement. The racist power structure, in a desperate move of deceit, co-option and dollar repression have unleashed a kindle of Black misleaders trained in the art of selloutism.… Full Transcript
Ferguson Two: Contradictions Of The State
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
On August 9th, 2015, at the anniversary of the police murder of unarmed Black teen Michael Brown, at the Ferguson Rebellion, a militarized state of emergency has yet again been declared on the county of… Full Transcript
Trump & The Politics of Resentment
Mumia Abu-Jamal
When New York billionaire and GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump launched into his anti-immigrant tirade against Mexicans crossing the border, he was using a long known political technique of plugging into the live wire of… Full Transcript
Clarity In Our Use of the Term Racism: Part 2
Mondo We Langa
This is part two of “Clarity in Our Use of the Term Racism.” Looking more concretely at historical events and developments, and paying specific attention to the period from about the mid 1400s to the… Full Transcript
40 Years in the Wilderness
Mumia Abu-Jamal
August 13, 2003, an essay from the new collection, Writing on the Wall. It has been 40 long years since the much heralded March on Washington, almost half a century. And what is our condition… Full Transcript
Clarity In Our Use of the Term Racism: Part 1
Mondo We Langa
I’m Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen We Langa, Mondo for short. This piece is “Clarity In Our Use of the Term Racism” is part one of a series in the Omaha Star newspaper. What is a mouse?… Full Transcript
Charleston
Mumia Abu-Jamal
A young white man, barely at the age of his majority, walks into Charleston’s most storied Black church, and before he leaves, a new history is written. Attending a Wednesday night Bible study, he sits… Full Transcript
The Other Death Penalty: Five Reasons to Abolish Death by Incarceration
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“The Other Death Penalty: Five Reasons to Abolish Death by Incarceration,” by Shakaboona. Life without parole sentences. It is often called “the other death penalty.” But, today, we simply call life without parole sentences what… Full Transcript
Corporate Rule & the Race Card
Edward Pinkney
Reverend Edward Pinkney, speaking from Lakeland correctional facility, the penitentiary in Coldwater, Michigan. The attack on Democracy, the vicious coward attack on Democracy in Benton Harbor, Michigan, shows that the corporation power structure is determined… Full Transcript
Stop The Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities
Jaan Laaman
“Australia, 2015. The Struggle Continues. Stop the forced closures of Aboriginal communities in Western Australia and all across Australia.” These were the opening words of a solidarity statement political prisoners in the United States recently… Full Transcript
Credibility Gap
Edward Pinkney
When we look at the America which seized land from Mexico and practically destroyed the American Indians, we charged genocide. There’s almost an endless list of those others, but they are all adds up to… Full Transcript
A Growing Disregard
Safir Chuma Asafo
This is Safir Chuma Asafo reporting from Huntington State Prison in Pennsylvania. There is a growing disregard for freedom of speech, for dissenting voices here in America, but especially so for Pennsylvania state prisoners, as… Full Transcript
I Can’t Breathe
Safir Chuma Asafo
This is Asafo Chuma Asafo reporting from Huntington State Prison in Pennsylvania. I can’t breathe within the solitary confinement of this police state environment. Eleven times ignored cries, until my freedom of speech went silent. I can’t… Full Transcript
The Trouble With Prison
Kenneth Hartman
The Trouble with Prison. Plato’s allegory of the cave describes how the limited perceptions of men leave them measuring the world with only the distorted reflections of reality. The trouble with prison, as it is… Full Transcript
It’s been 10 years since the watery carnage of Katrina, and 1 year since the fiery rage lit the night skies of Ferguson Missouri, and between the two harrowing events lay the state of Black… Full Transcript