With Mediators Like These
As guns, rockets and bombs from fighter planes, go silent, the real war begins between the apartheid state, Israel, and the embattled occupied state of Hamas, on behalf of the captives of Gaza. This is… Full Transcript
Beatings
The scenes are, unfortunately, all too familiar. A person is beaten, ruthlessly, relentlessly, by a cop (or group of cops). A video is released, and, at least initially, public sympathy flows to the beaten figure… Full Transcript
After Two Years: The War For Freedom
On May 29, 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court sent an innocent man, me, Lorenzo Johnson, back to prison for Life. This decision took place without the U.S. Supreme Court utilizing its normal proceedings. My Legal… Full Transcript
Wild In The Streets
Imagine that a group of men ran into a business, robbed it to the tune of $100,000.00, pulled guns on them, sexually assaulted a woman, and even stole food from them, before departing and vanishing.… Full Transcript
Leaders of Whom?
In every capital, in city halls, in the offices of police chiefs, in courts common and supreme, dark faces sit, bearing titles of apparent power. Their presence suggests the rise of an abandoned class, the… Full Transcript
Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice
Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Act is antiquated law that now must be reformed to reflect the body of neuropsychological and sociological studies on the adolescent brain and behavior development proving that children have underdeveloped brains and behavior,… Full Transcript
Message for National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
Sisters and Brothers of the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union and, of your guests — the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA), I greet you all as militant, historic labor unions who… Full Transcript
The Parent’s Nightmare
The saga that I have endured throughout the past twenty years is a good example of all that is wrong with our legal system and the people who are charged with carrying it out. On… Full Transcript
Anti-Move Propaganda 2.0
In all my years, I’ve never seen such biased, negative and nasty news coverage as I have of the Philadelphia-based MOVE Organization. There may be one exception: the coverage of the so-called Central Park 5,… Full Transcript
Bringers of Discord
The lands we arrogantly named the Middle East (one must wonder, Middle East of what? Europe?) are in disarray and disaster today, largely because of the greed, hubris and yes, white supremacy of Europe and… Full Transcript
For the Love of Winnie
For weeks, since the transition of Dr. Nelson R. Mandela, I have wanted to craft some words about Winnie Madilizela-Mandela (b. Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela), the second wife of Nelson. Although her role has been downplayed… Full Transcript
The Outrageous American Norm
An Indian diplomat, Dr. Devyani Khobragede, charged with filing false employment records for her housekeeper, is arrested, hauled into a U.S. Marshal’s office, strip-searched and subsequently released. In India, the event raises quite a ruckus,… Full Transcript
New Rules for MOVE
It happened a long time ago. August 8th, 1978, to be exact. Over 35 years ago. That’s when Philadelphia police raided the MOVE house and headquarters in Powelton Village, West Philadelphia, firing hundreds of rounds… Full Transcript
The Praise March
They came. They saw. They praised. It was far from exhilarating to see the recent 50th anniversary march of the 1963 March on Washington. In all honesty, it was depressing. For it reminds us of… Full Transcript
August 8th
On a Move. This is Delbert Africa and I just want to reach out to everybody on the radio and tell them that I and the rest of the MOVE 9 are still On a… Full Transcript
Beyond Treyvon: When the Personal Ain’t Political
The Trayvon Martin case is rightly the straw that broke the camel’s back, for it shows, with unusual clarity, how Black life is so easily trivialized. But it is not alone in this endeavor. How… Full Transcript
Cat Returns to the Cage
In the street, he was known as ‘Cat’ – a young man living in the hustling life. That’s all he knew. But Dec. 15, 1995 changed his life. His life became one no longer in… Full Transcript
On May 13th
On a Move! This is Delbert Africa calling Dallas Prison in Pennsylvania. I’m speaking to the May 13th massacre of the MOVE family in 1985 in Philadelphia. My statement is this: It is 27 years… Full Transcript
Beyond Central Park
The riveting documentary, “Central Park Five”, was an explosive example of what scholar Michelle Alexander has termed, “The New Jim Crow” (the title of her recent book), but, upon reflection, we find that it wasn’t… Full Transcript
Once again, a Black unarmed youth has been killed by a cop. And while the facts surrounding the shooting are presently unclear, what is clear is that a cop shot 18 year old Michael Brown… Full Transcript