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The New World
Charles Karim Diggs
“The New World.” My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I’m calling from Pennsylvania, from the new prison called Phoenix. A European escaped from Europe because of oppression, tyrants, and religious persecution. They also suffered economic… Full Transcript
Murder Inc Excerpt: Slavery and Capitalism
Mumia Abu-Jamal
This sadistic cycle worked like a charm for the booming economies of Europe and later America. For instance, prior to the U.S. Civil War, one crop, slave-grown cotton, provided more than 50% of all American… Full Transcript
Murder Inc Excerpt: Slavery
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Lets now hear from a spokesman for the Tennessee Tea Party. This group attempted to remove references of American slavery and the fact that the vast majority of the country’s founders were longstanding slaveowners from… Full Transcript
Murder Inc. Excerpt: American Holocaust
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“American Holocaust.” In his in-depth and exhaustive work on the American Holocaust entitled A Little Matter of Genocide, author and political activist Ward Churchill distills the narrative of the embryonic American empire. In his 1782… Full Transcript
Murder Inc. The Colony He Helped Found
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Murder Incorporated Book One: Dreaming of Empire by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. “The Colony He Helped Found.” The colony he helped create did not hesitate to execute Quakers or go medieval on those considered… Full Transcript
Jericho Freedom Movement
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Jericho Freedom Movements.” For several centuries, black captives in America’s slave quarters used Bible stories to support their long struggle for freedom. In the long and dark night of bondage, people turned Bible stories into… Full Transcript
Puerto Rico: A Colony By Any Name
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Puerto Rico: A Colony By Any Name.” On Christopher Columbus’s second voyage to what was called the West Indies, he visited Puerto Rico, called Borinquen by the Arawak natives of the island. Columbus docked in… Full Transcript
An Abolitionist Life
Mumia Abu-Jamal
What does it mean to call oneself an abolitionist? The word doesn’t mean today what it meant 150 years ago. Then, it meant an end to what some have called ‘America’s Original Sin’–Slavery. Today? Well,… Full Transcript
White Hate Groups Cause Terror in Charlottesville
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
A multitude of white hate groups gathered to rally Friday (8-11-17) in Charlottesville, VA in opposition to a local campaign to remove a statue of Confederate civil war General Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park.… Full Transcript
The Battles of History
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The events surrounding Charlottesville, Virginia have a resonance far beyond the borders of Old Dominion. Even though they began as a strictly local affair, they quickly assumed a national character, because this strictly local event… Full Transcript
What Kind Of Society Do We Want
Charles Karim Diggs
My name is Charles Karim Diggs. Our little subject matter tonight is, uh, what type of society do we want? Are we willingly obeying a disease system? Every two years, we vote for legislators, and… Full Transcript
The National Disease of America
James Baldwin: Word Warrior
Mumia Abu-Jamal
He was born in Harlem Hospital, New York, August 2nd, 1924; oddly enough, the same year that my mother was born in the South. His name, at birth, was James Arthur Jones, to a mother… Full Transcript
Mr. Kaepernick, You Are My Hero
Bad News
The Reparations Case
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Ever since the end of slavery, Africans in America have been hoping for and seeking reparations, for wrongs done against Black people for centuries. Initially, after the US Civil War ended, Africans were offered 40… Full Transcript
Black August 2004
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It was a sweaty, steaming night in August, when a group of African captives gathered in the forests of Marne Rouge, in Le Cap, San Domingue. It was August, 1791. Among these men was a… Full Transcript
Black August 2003
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Black August has many markers throughout the long history of resistance in the Americas. There are more than we could ever recount here. But here are a few that are important and undeniable events that… Full Transcript
Okay, the obsession with struggling year after year, asking for justice and equality, has caused many African-Americans and others away from the voting polls. They see no use. They hear the same talk, same issues.… Full Transcript