Mumia Abu-Jamal (guest author)

Mumia Abu-Jamal: ‘No thanks for Thanksgiving’

Every November, when “Thanksgiving” is scheduled, I think of the People of the First Nations (so-called Native Americans), and wonder…

November 30, 2013

Herman Wallace: Revolutionary

Taken from an Oct. 10 column posted at ­prisonradio.org. The long and tortured life of Herman ­Wallace, of the famed…

October 30, 2013

‘Shooting crazy’

Taken from an Oct. 4 audio column on prisonradio.org A young mother, her infant quietly snoozing in the back seat,…

October 11, 2013

Lessons unlearned

I watched the rhetorical run-up to war in Syria, with a sinking sense of fascination. I wondered if the nation…

September 26, 2013

Marcus Garvey 1887-1940

Aug. 17 will mark the 126th anniversary of the birth of the great Black nationalist leader, Marcus Garvey, who was…

August 14, 2013

Beyond Trayvon: When the personal ain’t political

Column written on July 21st. The Trayvon Martin case is rightly the straw that broke the camel’s back, for it…

August 4, 2013

Henri Alleg: 1921 – 2013

Henri Alleg was a journalist’s journalist. Of French-Algerian ancestry, he witnessed the horrors and brutalities of the Algerian War personally.…

August 1, 2013

‘Flight from Babylon’

This column was written on June 23 by political prisoner Abu-Jamal in SCI-Mahanoy, Frackville, Pa.   Not since the late…

July 16, 2013

Why DOMA was unconstitutional

The following column was written on July 2 by Abu-Jamal, a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa. It…

July 8, 2013

Guantánamo: Fear and hunger

Taken from a May 27 audio column at prisonradio.org.  The writer is a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville,…

June 13, 2013