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Comrade vs. Friend
Kenjuan Congo Jr.
I’m gonna call this “Comrade vs. Friend.” This is Kenjuan Congo, Jr. calling from our prison camp, behind enemy lines. I’ve been having conversations lately about different types of relationships. I feel like a lot… Full Transcript
National Awareness of Domestic Violence
Charles Karim Diggs
I’m in Pennsylvania state prison Phoenix. Here’s the title of my essay: “Are we as a nation aware that domestic violence is the national character of a larger violence against humanity?” As I write this… Full Transcript
Thank You Sisters!
President Trump At War With The World
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In the eight months since Donald Trump has been the President of the United States of America, he has intervened militarily in the nations of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and the Philippines. And he… 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
Organized Crime
Wilbert Sanders
Hi, this is Wilbert Sanders, as Jazz the Poet, with a piece I call “Organized Crime.” After reviewing the situation of race relations within and out this complex nation, the disenfranchised hold United States guilty… Full Transcript
The Cost of Loss
9/11: Fifteen Years After
Message in French for A la fête de l’Humanité
Message in English for A la fête de l’Humanité
The Rise of the Imperial Feminine
Mumia Abu-Jamal
If Democratic hopes are fulfilled, Hillary Rodham Clinton will shortly become the 45th President of the United States, the first of her gender in history. While that is indeed remarkable, it should be noted that… Full Transcript
Chickens Coming Home to Roost
Lynne Stewart Reads “Prisoners Voices Blocked and Censorship of US Prisons”
Jaan Laaman
The United States is often called the country of prisons because we are five percent of the world’s population, but the U.S. holds 25 percent of all the prisoners in the world. Recently we have… Full Transcript
Muhammad Ali 1942-2016
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It was Jan. 1942, when the baby, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. was. Born to a working-class Negro family in Louisville, Kentucky. In those days, Kentucky was famous for its distinctive blue grass, its championship horses… Full Transcript
Memorial Day 2016
America’s So-Called Humanitarian Intervention Wars are an Utter Failure
The Killing Fields
Conference of the Herds
Mumia Abu-Jamal
I confess to not watching the entire presidential ‘debate’. By 20 minutes, I could stand no more. I saw nothing more than a pack of dogs, yelping fear, hatred, ignorance and enmity at the world… Full Transcript
Read Kenjuan’s published article on page 39 The title of this piece is “The Social Psychology of Prison Grief.” This is Kenjuan Congo, Jr. calling from a prison camp behind enemy lines. In issue number… Full Transcript