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Loaded: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Takes Aim at 2nd Amendment

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Historian Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz is known best for her award-winning work, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Beacon:2014), but lovers and readers of history know that she is a prodigious writer, who has… Full Transcript

Criminal Cops Caught Red Handed

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

“Criminal Cops Caught Red Handed.” Thank God for modern technology: iPhones, street cameras, social media, and body cams. For without it, corrupt cops and police departments would have never been caught for the criminal acts… 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

Trump’s America and Ours

Mumia Abu-Jamal

“Trump’s America and Ours.” The shockwaves from Charlottesville, VA are resonating around the world. The boiling river of hatred that rolled through the city, featured a panorama of paranoia, stars and bars, swastikas, Nazi regalia,… Full Transcript

On Politics

Theater of the Absurd

Mumia Abu-Jamal

When I was a young Panther, a tiny, bald, blue-eyed Frenchman came to visit the national headquarters in Berkeley, California. David Hilliard, the Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, greeted him briefly, and… Full Transcript

Make America White Again

Mumia Abu-Jamal

The 2016 Republican National Convention, under the ponderous pressure of Donald Trump, was, in many ways, an escape back in time – to the 1950s, and ‘60s – an era when Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon,… Full Transcript

The Genius of Huey P. Newton

Mumia Abu-Jamal

To those of us who were alive – and sentient, the name Huey P. Newton evokes an era of mass resistance, of Black popular protest and of the rise of revolutionary organizations across the land.… Full Transcript

Muslims Not Welcome

Mumia Abu-Jamal

The image of an imperious Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, speaks volumes as he calls for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. The comments flood the globe, the latest expression of American fear, hatred… Full Transcript