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Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks on mass shootings

Transcribed from Oct. 2 broadcast from Prison Radio. The sounds of gunfire crackle through the night air, but few seem…

November 3, 2017

Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks on mass shootings

The sounds of gunfire crackle through the night air, but few seem to realize its import. Some think it’s firecrackers;…

October 28, 2017

Mumia Abu-Jamal on ‘An Abolitionist Life’

What does it mean to call oneself an abolitionist? The word doesn’t mean today what it meant 150 years ago.…

October 16, 2017

Mumia Abu Jamal on Puerto Rico: ’A colony by any name’

On Christopher Columbus's second voyage to what was called the West Indies, he visited Puerto Rico, called Boriquen by the…

October 14, 2017

DACA: The latest from the Un-Obama

If there is one unifying principle emerging from the disaster known as the Trump Regime, it is the president's singular…

September 11, 2017

Mumia Abu-Jamal: The battles of history

The events surrounding Charlottesville, Va., have a resonance far beyond the borders of Old Dominion. Even though they began as…

September 10, 2017

Dick Gregory returns to his ancestors

Dick Gregory. His name was Richard Claxton Gregory, born Oct. 12, 1932, in St. Louis, Mo. But the world knew…

August 27, 2017

James Arthur Baldwin: word warrior

He was born in Harlem Hospital, New York, on Aug. 2, 1924; oddly enough, the same year that my mother…

August 13, 2017

‘Out of the mouths of babes’

This is from a column written by Mumia Abu-Jamal on June 21. It arrived after the June 24 ceremony for…

July 7, 2017

From Mumia Abu-Jamal: My Heartfelt ‘Thank You’!

Taken from a May 30 audio recording on prisonradio.org Several days ago I received a message from both of our…

June 2, 2017