The Vick Kick (Version A)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
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1967: Year of Fire, Year of Rage
Mumia Abu-Jamal
1967, in that brief recitation of time, we find history’s echo of an era of rebellion, resistance, fear, and hope. It was emblematic of what we’ve come to call “the long hot summer,” for in… Full Transcript
NYC Writer’s Union Event in Support of Mumia
Mumia Abu-Jamal
To fellow writers, write on. Dear sisters, brothers, poets, scholars, fellow scribes – On the move. I thank you for coming together in New York to add your presence with ours, to add your words… Full Transcript
Imus Amongst Us
Mumia Abu-Jamal
With the ending of Don Imus’s radio and TV career, has arisen a perverse, if utterly stupid, caterwaul from conservatives who are, to hear them tell it, newly born converts of free speech and equally… Full Transcript
Death in Cell #5
Mumia Abu-Jamal
A Sierra Leonean refugee named Oury Jalloh burned to death in Cell No. 5 in the city of Dessau, Germany. The date: January 7, 2005 Police at the station have called it… Full Transcript
Institutionalized Racism
Siddique Abdullah Hasan
While blacks and whites in this country are murdered at relatively the same rate – about 47% blacks and 51% whites – 80% of those executed have been executed for murdering whites while only 7%… Full Transcript
Voting Rights Act Without the Real Right to Vote (Version B)
Voting Rights Act Without the Real Right to Vote (Version A)
Rosa and the Rest of Us (Version B)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
There was something eerily unsettling about the national outpouring of mourning for the late Civil Rights pioneer Rosa Parks. The flood of official faces, those of politicians, makes me uneasy. To look at the pinched… Full Transcript
Rosa and the Rest of Us (Version A)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
There was something eerily unsettling about the national outpouring of mourning for the late Civil Rights pioneer Rosa Parks. The flood of official faces, those of politicians, makes me uneasy. To look at the pinched… Full Transcript
Failed System (Man is Bastard 4)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The muted public response to the mass murder of MOVE members has set the stage for acceptable state violence against radicals, against Blacks, and against all those deemed socially unacceptable. In the 60s and 70s,… Full Transcript
Philadelphia Eminent Domain (Man is Bastard 3)
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 rage.… Full Transcript
August History (Man is Bastard 6)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
George Jackson was my hero. He set a standard for prisoners, political prisoners, for people. He showed the love, the strength, the revolutionary fervor that’s characteristic of any soldier for the people. He inspired prisoners, whom I later… Full Transcript
Condie Gets Kicked To The Curb
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Like a light bulb going on in the brain, the Bush regime has found the perfect foil for the growing controversy over the Richard Clarke remarks to the 9/11 Commission. After days of claiming executive… Full Transcript
In The Shadows of Abu Ghraib Prison
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The color photos coming out of the dreaded Abu Ghraib prison, on the outskirts of Baghdad, are racing around the world, silent yet eloquent testament to what Americans really think, about the people they allegedly… Full Transcript
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
Forty Years In The Wilderness
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It’s been 40 long years since the much-heralded “March on Washington.” Almost half a century, and what is our condition today? Our communities are ravaged from crushing poverty, crumbling schools, bumbling politicians, and brutal cops.… Full Transcript
Alan’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
Mumia Thanks PEN Oakland Award
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
