‘Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. The U.S.A.’ by Mumia...
Book review by Kiilu Nyasha The first of its kind, Mumia has written a book that is, paradoxically, both revolutionary and conservative. It’s revolutionary because it breaks new ground enlightening us...
View ArticleBlack August 2009: A story of African freedom fighters
by Kiilu Nyasha George Jackson Black August is a month of great significance for Africans throughout the Diaspora, but particularly here in the U.S. where it originated. “August,” as Mumia Abu-Jamal...
View ArticleFilmmaker Angela Carroll on her new film ‘Angela Y. Davis: Radical Pedagogy’
“Angela Y. Davis: Radical Pedagogy” will be screened Wednesday, March 10, Wednesday, March 10, 1-3 p.m., in the Richard Oakes Multicultural Center, Cesar Chavez Student Union (upstairs), San Francisco...
View ArticleCommemorating the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Comrade George...
by Kiilu Nyasha George Lester Jackson, known as Comrade, spent 11 years in California prisons, mostly in solitary confinement. After plea-bargaining a $70 gas station robbery in 1960, he got one to...
View ArticleGeorge Jackson: Forty years ago they shot him down
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali George Jackson The 21st of August marks the 40th anniversary of the execution of George Lester Jackson. The Chicago-born Jackson would have celebrated his 70th...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for May 2013
by Wanda Sabir Wilfred Batin, Wanda’s nephew, at the Honor Roll Tribute in February at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco – Photo: Wanda Sabir We remember Richie Havens, folk singer and activist who made...
View ArticleThe revision and origin of Black August
by Kiilu Nyasha “As a slave, the social phenomenon that engages my consciousness is, of course, revolution.” – George L. Jackson The revision of Black August George Jackson – Linocut: Santiago Armengod...
View ArticleFrom the Keystone State to the Golden State: The need for a national movement...
by Robert Saleem Holbrook In Pennsylvania, former Black Panthers and Black Liberation Army members Russell Maroon Shoatz, Joseph JoJo Bowens, Clifford Lumumba Futch and Fred Muhammad Burton enter...
View ArticleBrother Hugo Pinell: The tragic loss of a true servant
by Taharka Omowale When I received the sad and shocking news about our loss of Brother Hugo Pinell, aka Yogi Bear and Dahariki, I must say it felt like a big blow to my gut. In losing our Brother Hugo...
View ArticleBlack August, a story of African freedom fighters
by Kiilu Nyasha Black August is a month of great significance for Africans throughout the diaspora, but particularly here in the U.S., where it originated. “August,” as Mumia Abu-Jamal noted, “is a...
View ArticleRuchell Cinque Magee, sole survivor of the Aug. 7, 1970, Courthouse Slave...
by Kiilu Nyasha Preface: I can hardly believe that 47 years have gone by since the Aug. 7,1970, Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion. Ruchell is now 77 years old, same as myself. It’s a sin and a shame the...
View ArticleBaba Jahahara: Black August 2017
If Black lives truly matter … then Afrikans deserve reparations! by Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Maat Greetings of IMANI (FAITH) Esteemed G-o-ds, May our Divine Creator of and in All – and Beloved...
View ArticleFree California political prisoners Romaine ‘Chip’ Fitzgerald and Ruchell...
by National Lawyers Guild Political Prisoner Support Committee Resolution calling for the release of California political prisoners Romaine ‘Chip’ Fitzgerald and Ruchell ‘Cinque’ Magee WHEREAS, Romaine...
View ArticleRuchell Cinque Magee: Real people not scared of freedom support the truth...
by Ruchell Cinque Magee The Constitution of the United States belongs to all the American people. What Bill and Hillary Clinton did to pervert constitutional law consists of all out treason against the...
View ArticleJalil A. Muntaqim: The making of a movement
by Jalil A. Muntaqim I was captured on Aug. 28, 1971, in San Francisco after a car chase and gun battle with San Francisco police. It was alleged that myself and co-defendant Albert Nuh Washington were...
View ArticleRuchell Magee, longest held political prisoner in the world, heads to parole...
by Ruchell Cinque Magee Ruchell Cinque Magee, gravely wounded, was the sole survivor of the Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion on Aug. 7, 1970, led by George Jackson’s little brother Jonathan. That...
View ArticlePrison Panthers and awakening the Black radical
by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington “What made him (Malcolm X) unfamiliar and dangerous was not his hatred for white people but his love for Blacks, his apprehension of the horror of the Black condition, and...
View ArticleRestrictions on First Amendment speech rights warrant congressional...
Ruchell Cinque Magee, gravely wounded, was the sole survivor of the Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion on Aug. 7, 1970, led by George Jackson’s little brother Jonathan. That incident is still, a...
View ArticleSoledad uncensored: Racism and the hyper-policing of Black bodies, Part 2
Jonathan Jackson, 17, planned what’s come to be called the Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion to free the Soledad Brothers, including his brother, George, by taking the judge hostage. But George was not...
View ArticleRuchell Cinque Magee speaks
Ruchell Cinque is the longest unjustly held political prisoner in the US, under lockdown for nearly six decades. Cinque was a key figure in the 1970 Marin County Civic Center shootout but was...
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