Mumia Abu Jamal: Post Ferguson
Funeral services were held this week Michael Brown, the unarmed black youth shot at least six times and killed by a white Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Brown’s family asked for a day of reprieve...
Category: Commentary
Mumia Abu Jamal: Fear of the world outside
A commentary from Mumia Abu Jamal on the reaction within the United States to the mass migration of unaccompanied Central American minors. download As an ineffectual Congress gives voice to howling throngs decrying the...
Mumia Abu Jamal “Military Advisers: The Way Back into Iraq?”
With the news that President Barack Obama is now sending 300 military advisers back into Iraq, identified as Special Forces, we may be eying the beginning of a new phase in the Iraq War....
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Bird dogging Bergdahl
A commentary from Mumia Abu Jamal. download For the American captive of the Taliban. U.S. Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the homecoming he has long dreamed of may be more bitter than sweet. For on...
Dr. Maya Angelou: April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014
Influential author, poet and humanitarian Dr. Maya Angelou died Wednesday May 28,2014. download Dr. Maya Angelou: April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014 A woman called Maya, 1928 – 2014. Maya Angelou had to...
Mumia Abu Jamal on Brown v. Board of Education at 60
Brown at 60 It has been 60 years since the US Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing segregated educational systems. Download Sixty years; my entire life. And today, schools are still...
Mumia Abu Jamal on the botched execution in Oklahoma
Execution in Oklahoma Download He tossed. He turned. He moaned. He burned. Clayton Lockett, on the death gurney of Oklahoma’s Department of Corrections spoke words, struggled, and reportedly kicked his legs for 43 minutes...
Mumia Abu Jamal on the life and death of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter
The Hurricane: Rubin Carter He was born in New Jersey 76 years ago as Rubin Carter, but most people knew him as “The Hurricane” – his ring name – earned after a dizzying career...
Mumia Abu Jamal on the 528 death sentences handed down in Egypt
Death Row Record In a trial that may be unprecedented anywhere in the world, an Egyptian military court recently returned 528 death sentences to many supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. In what is seen...
Mumia Abu Jamal: Closed Schools
A commentary by Mumia Abu Jamal Download It is a national crisis. Worse – it is a crime. Schools all across Black America and in El Barrio are closed, shuttered. What does this mean?...
