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Prison Voters
Charles Karim Diggs
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
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
Choose Your Devil
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Name your devil. I’ve never seen an election like this ever. The stakes are sky high, yes, but the options are bottom low, especially for black folks. None promise relief from the hell we inhabit… Full Transcript
Clintonism Defined
Polls
The Politics of Challenge = The Politics of Change
Choose Your Poison
Donald Trump: Genius or Idiot?
“The Clinton Show”
Mumia Abu-Jamal
As the Democratic National Convention rolls out its latest episode of the long-running “The Clinton Show”. It is threatened, as are all old programs, by an audience that has grown beyond the show’s characters. Starring… Full Transcript
Mumia Abu-Jamal on Democracy Now!
Mumia Abu-Jamal
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. We are “Breaking with Convention: War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. We’re broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, broadcasting outside that… Full Transcript
Why Black and Latino Americans Won’t Vote for Trump or the Republican Party
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Lets face some truths here, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has an image problem of being racist, xenophobic, sexist, and a politically unpolished blabbering brute. Trump represents everything that is wrong with the Republican Party.… Full Transcript
We Must Stop Supporting Those Who Do Not Support Our Black Community
Beyond Bernie
Voting: The Final Fig Leaf
Mumia Abu-Jamal
As elections near, voters face the choices before them with something like dread: Donald Trump: loud, bombastic, bellicose, rich as Croesus, and xenophobic; or the presumptive Democratic nominee (unless Vermont’s Bernie Sanders manages to upend… Full Transcript
Prisoners Can Pay Taxes but Can’t Vote
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
It has been long established in America that there can be no taxation on citizens without representation, but in Pennsylvania (PA) prisoners pay taxes, but can’t vote. In the Commonwealth State of Pennsylvania, the PA… Full Transcript
The Trump Party
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It’s months from the conventions, but if today is any indicator, the results are all but guaranteed. No matter the results of the election, the impact in the Republican Party is clear. After years of… Full Transcript
Voting for Your Pain
Mumia Abu-Jamal
An election is occurring tonight. It’s a primary, one of dozens to come. It matters not where — or, for the most part, even who. Elections are public expressions of emotion, as in ‘who do… Full Transcript
A Black National Party is Needed
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
I am Reginald Sinclair Lewis. “This piece is called: This Is Your World.” It is truly deeply moving to see throngs of anti-racist white Americans of all economic, educational, and social backgrounds shouting, “black lives… Full Transcript