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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
What to a Prisoner is the Fourth of July, Read by Bernadette Devlin Mcalisky
Mumia Abu-Jamal
My name is Bernadette Devlin Mcalisky. Mumia Abu-Jamal’s deep and resonant voice has been silenced and censored. I will read to you one of his illuminating commentaries written on the occasion of Nelson Mandela’s visit… Full Transcript
We Must Stop Supporting Those Who Do Not Support Our Black Community
Edward Pinkney
Reverend Edward Pinkney from Marquette Branch Prison, better known as the concentration camp of America. We must stop supporting LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, and all others who do not support our Black community.… Full Transcript
Who’s Running?
Wilbert Sanders
This is “Who’s Running,” by Wilbert Saunders, also known as Jazz the Poet. Politicians are drawing massive crowds With empty promises and talking loud. Grand ideas of uplifting the economy, But actually promote modernized slavery.… Full Transcript
America’s So-Called Humanitarian Intervention Wars Are an Utter Failure
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“America’s So-Called Humanitarian Intervention Wars Are an Utter Failure,” By Shakaboona. If America’s humanitarian intervention wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria were to bring the people of those nations humanitarian aid, democracy, peace, and… Full Transcript
Now I Know
Edward Pinkney
Now I know. You would never, ever see Reverend Edward Pickney on The Oprah Winfrey Show. You would never, ever see or hear about Oprah Winfrey interviewing Reverend Edward Pinkney because she can’t handle the… Full Transcript
Clintonism Laid Bare
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Bill Clinton, perhaps the best raw political animal of his generation, said a mouthful recently, especially when he confronted activists from the ubiquitous Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. There, the primary political architect of the… Full Transcript
Antonin Scalia 1936-2016
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Justice Antonin Scalia, of the U.S. Supreme Court, famous for his quips and his judicial opinions, is no more. The associate justice appointed to the courts by President Reagan in 1986 was coming up on… Full Transcript
The MOVE Sisters: Freedom Now
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It’s a fact that the U.S. is an Ahistorical society. If we go more than 20 minutes down time’s road, most Americans will have forgotten all; in a few weeks; a month? Forget it. Americans… Full Transcript
Message for Black Radical Tradition Philly Conference
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
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
Statistics
Edward Pinkney
Reverend Edward Pinkney from Benton Harbor, Michigan, now located in Marquette, Michigan penitentiary, Michigan Branch Prison, just across Lake Superior from Canada. Hundreds of years ago, our nation put these considered less than human in… Full Transcript
Centuries of Struggle Big House Prison Blues
Mumia Abu-Jamal
‘Plus ça change …’ say the French; or ‘The more things change, of course, the more they stay the same.’ That thought, with all its despair and wisdom, resonates with particular power when we look… Full Transcript
Clarity In Our Use of the Term Racism: Part 3
Mondo We Langa
Part three of the series “Clarity in Our Use of the Term ‘Racism’.” Sometimes wearing metal helmets and/or body armor and carrying firearms and/or bringing cannons and other weaponry that was unknown to the people… Full Transcript
Lamenting the Corruption of Empire
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It may surprise you to know that there’s another book coming out. A work of history inspired by the late Howard Zinn. A work written and co-authored by myself, Mumia Abu-Jamal and my co-author Stephen… Full Transcript
Bloodlines
Mondo We Langa
When we escaped the plantations of Florida And ran among the trees Toward swampy ground To trudge through mud and memories Of bondage and of blood, We found your arms slung open wide, As gates… 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
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