Mumia Abu-Jamal (guest author)

Half the nation, half citizens

The recent Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a half century of legal precedent has…

July 6, 2022

Mumia Abu-Jamal: When the empire calls

The following message from political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was prepared for the Workers’ Summit in Tijuana, Mexico, June 10-12, which…

June 6, 2022

The sickness that simmers at the core of the ‘American’ soul

March 18, 2000 After several brutal anti-LGBTQ+ murders, including 21-year-old gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in 1998 and…

June 2, 2022

Otra vida, otra pérdida – un comentario de Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Vinieron a Estados Unidos para escapar las guerras inter-étnicas en la RDC, la República Democrática del Congo en África…

April 28, 2022

Another life, another loss – a Mumia Abu-Jamal commentary

April 19 — They came to America to escape from interethnic wars in the DRC, the Democratic Republic of Congo,…

April 26, 2022

Harriet Tubman: Una mujer llamada Generala Moisés

  Nos dejó hace casi un siglo pero su nombre sigue vivo, recordado por millones de personas; su memoria es…

March 22, 2022

Harriet Tubman, a woman called General Moses

Harriet Tubman was born on a Dorchester, Maryland, plantation sometime during March 1822 and died March 10, 1913, at her…

March 18, 2022

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Un Nuevo Movimiento por la Libertad ahora  

El gran revolucionario caribeño Frantz Fanon escribió en su ya clásica obra, The Wretched of the Earth (Los condenados de…

February 3, 2022

Mumia Abu-Jamal: ‘A new Freedom Now Movement’

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s commentaries are recorded by prisonradio.org/.  The great Caribbean revolutionary Franz Fanon wrote in his now-classic work, “The Wretched…

January 31, 2022

‘Sir Sidney Poitier’

The following is a lightly edited commentary. For nearly a century, Sir Sidney Poitier lived and worked in the United…

January 28, 2022