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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
Death for a Cigarette
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The name Eric Garner is now enshrined in the grim annals of history.It joins Mike Brown, Ramarley Graham, Alan Blueford, Dontre Hamilton, Tamir Rice, and thousands of others, who were murdered by those their taxes… Full Transcript
Reflections on The Reintroduction of Common Dreams
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Long live John Africa. On first read of the materials related to the FOP [Fraternal Order of Police]/Fox News’s attack on the Oakland School District’s website, “Urban Dreams’, containing teacher created lesson plans on social justice… Full Transcript
U.S. Department of Justice Downplays Institutional Racism at Shelby County Juvenile Court
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“United States Department of Justice Downplays Institutional Racism at Shelby County Juvenile Court” by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. The Department of Justice conducted a five year investigation on the juvenile court of Memphis and Shelby County,… Full Transcript
When Children Are The Enemy
Mumia Abu-Jamal
I’ve been watching for days now as media reports display the growing hatreds at the arrival of Central American children across the Mexican border. American voices crackle with bile as they begin to drum beat… Full Transcript
Slave of the State
Asar Akili Kamau Heru
This piece is entitled “Slave of the State.” [The] 13th Amendment the United States Constitution, Article One, reads as follows: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime where of the… 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
Interview with Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox (2002)
Albert Woodfox
Noelle Hanrahan: Prison Radio conducted these rare and exclusive interviews with Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox of the Angola Three by phone from the Closed Cell Restriction Unit and the Camp J punishment unit at… Full Transcript
The Latest Outrage
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The recent trial of 47-year-old computer tech Michael Dunn, for the killing of teenager Jordan Davis and attempted murder of three other Black youth, is a fitting reminder of the real state of Black people… Full Transcript
A Greeting From Jaan Laaman to the Boston Community Church
Jaan Laaman
Hello, Boston. Let me send warm greetings and a revolutionary salute to all of you, activists, interested people, former political prisoners, comrades and friends, gathered here in Boston in Copley Square this evening. It’s been a… Full Transcript
Moratorium
Kevin Cooper
by Kevin Cooper. I am a poor African American, innocent man on death row in America. These are three very important matters that the United States Supreme Court doesn’t acknowledge when it comes to the… Full Transcript
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