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Michigan Governor Snyder’s Criminal Acts of Environmental Racism
Flint: Water Wars Against the Poor
MLK Enemy of the State
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The name, Martin Luther King, Jr., has become an American talisman. Politicians, who have spent their entire careers ignoring or attacking the lives, rights or interests of African-Americans, erupt in praise of King, some even… Full Transcript
Message for Black Radical Tradition Philly Conference
When A Child Dies
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Cleveland officials announce no charges to be filed in the police killing of 12-year old Tamir Rice. There is something shattering about the death -the killing – of a child. When a child dies, the… Full Transcript
A Radical Revolution of Values
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“A Radical Revolution of Values,” by Shakaboona. The era of change is here, from the people’s takeover of Wisconsin State’s Capitol Building to the Occupy Wall Street movement occurring in nearly every major city throughout… Full Transcript
President Obama and the 13th Amendment
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“President Obama Looks At Anniversary of the 13th Amendment Through Rose-tinted Glasses,” by Shakaboona. Recently, President Barack Obama celebrated the anniversary of the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution with his usual lofty speeches… Full Transcript
Poem about Mumia
Bryant Arroyo
Bryant Arroyo for Prison Radio, in collaboration with Robert Sanders, aka, Jazz the Poet Mumia Abu-Jamal Since the government fails to represent by employing officials with evil intent, Lives are destroyed, ripped apart, and torn.… Full Transcript
The Department of Justice Can’t Give Justice to Black People
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“The Department of Justice Can’t Give Justice to Black People,” by Shakaboona. In the wake of the release of police video of the murder of seventeen year old Laquan McDonald, the local NAACP chapter and… Full Transcript
Boorish and Boring
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Watching political debates is not my thing. First of all, they’re hardly really debates; they are, more often than not, a series of sound-bites; often, of promises that both speakers and listeners know won’t be… Full Transcript
Black Lives Have Never Mattered In The United States of America And Never Will
Asar Imhotep Amen
Troy Thomas, Lancaster, California. “Black Lives Have Never Mattered in the United States of America and Never Will: A Modern Day Slave’s Perspective.” Sometimes different people can independently arrive at the same conclusion. I didn’t… Full Transcript
And Now Laquan
Mumia Abu-Jamal
And now Laquan. With a name like Laquan, we can safely assume his Blackness, of middling height, perhaps five two, with a weight of 130 pounds or so. Laquan bounces down a Chicago avenue with… Full Transcript
States of Fear
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Within hours of the terror strikes in Paris, governors representing nearly half the United States, 23 states in all, bum rush the mic to announce that they’re issuing orders to ban refugees from Syria into… Full Transcript
Prison Censoring Thought Control Police
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In States across the country we have State departmental agencies like the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC) acting as government “thought control” police over prisoners in… Full Transcript
Immigration Policy is Mass Incarcaration
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Since the re-election of President Barack Obama to the White Hose, there has been a gearing up to possibly introduce an Immigration Reform Bill to Congress for its enactment as statutory law, but what says… Full Transcript
Electing Enemies
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The U.S. Presidential elections are over a year from now, but if you relied on national media accounts, you’d think that they were all but imminent. But this isn’t the elections; it’s like an obstacle… Full Transcript
Government Torture is Old
Khalil Bennet
In a post-police brutality time, the United States boldly admits the brutal torture tactics placed upon so called terrorists via the hands of the CIA. This seems to be more and more of a slap… Full Transcript
Justice or Else
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Justice or Else: Direct Action and Economic Withdrawal by Shakaboona. On October the 10th, 2015, African American, Latino and Latina, and Indigenous peoples gather over one million strong in the nation’s capital of Washington, D.C.,… Full Transcript
Where Was You?
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
Where was you? Hugo Yogi Pinell’s life mattered. This is Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, who met this comrade 15 years ago. He represented the best of all existing revolutionary formations in these gulag prison plantations… Full Transcript
The one main thing Black people in America seem to be cognizant of, in the recent Democratic and Republican Party presidential debates, is those party’s candidates disregard of issues Black people want addressed. None of… Full Transcript