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The Problem With “Black Skin, White Masks”

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Here’s the problem with Black Skin, White Masks. In my study and read and reflection of Black Skin, White Masks and then The Wretched of the Earth, A Dying Colonialism, and other works by Fanon,… Full Transcript

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VADOC Decades of Failure

David Annarelli

Update: More Virginia model examples of decades of failure.  Today is February 23, 2026. We have more updates from inside the Virginia Department of Correction. And it must be said, the destruction being perpetrated by… Full Transcript

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Virgina DOC: The Hits Keep Coming

David Annarelli

Update: Virginia DOC, Mental health, Medical and Other, today is February 10th, 2026, and the hits just keep on coming in the Virginia Department of Corrections, where it is overwhelmingly clear that no one is… Full Transcript

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Open Letter to Mike Jones

David Annarelli

This is an open letter to Virginia Senator Mike Jones. Today is January 26, 2026. Senator Mike Jones is one of Virginia’s General Assembly members and at the forefront of addressing the issues of abuse… Full Transcript

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This is Assata

Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Every little girl should know her name. From the bowels of repression and calamity, she came. Wrung poetic lyrics of love from raw pain. From a system designed to break, she remained untamed, gave herself… Full Transcript

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I’m Tired

Antoine “Indy” Walker

Hey, what’s up, everybody? This is Antoine, aka Indy. I’m calling in again. Today, I want to share something deeply personal that was published in a prison journalism project. The piece is titled “I’m Tired.”… Full Transcript

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America Is Watching Israel’s Prisons

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

Citizens of the world. My name is Shakaboona. I am one of America’s 2000 children serving a death by incarceration prison sentence at the Department of Corrections in Pennsylvania, United States of America, and I… Full Transcript

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Maroon Prevails

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Russell Maroon Shoatz, a Black Liberation fighter since his youth, after many years of struggle, has prevailed in his action to bar the Pa. Dept. of Corrections (DOC) from ever holding him in isolation again.… Full Transcript

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The Free Virginia Movement

Uhuru Rowe

This is Comrade Uhuru of the Free Virginia Movement. As we inch ever so closer towards the September 9 anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion, which happened back in 1971, we, of the Free Virginia… Full Transcript

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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

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It’s Torture in Here Too

Kenneth Hartman

The American Psychology Association recently issued a scathing report of the collusion between members of their organization and government torturers as a part of the War on Terror, begun under the second Bush administration. The… Full Transcript

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