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What Fox News and Hannity blocked me from saying: Mumia as fuel for...
by Johanna Fernandez Mumia Abu Jamal in a photo taken last year. He was forced to cut his hair when he left death row. On Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 8, I received an email from Fox News’ show, Hannity,...
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Behind the flash mob attack on Obama’s civil rights nominee Debo Adegbile
On Wednesday, March 5, the full U.S. Senate failed on a procedural vote to support the nomination of Debo Adegbile to be the next assistant attorney general for civil rights. By a vote of 51 nays to 48...
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The Fifth Circuit stays tonight’s scheduled execution of Robert Campbell
Breaking news from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund: The Fifth Circuit has just stayed tonight’s scheduled execution of Robert Campbell. The court’s order is here. Robert C. Owen, one of Mr. Campbell’s...
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Political prisoners for 45 years – yet Mondo and Ed live lives that matter
by Linda Kennedy “Forty-five days is too long; 45 years is a tragedy.” That from Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen we Langa commenting on the time he has spent at the Nebraska State Penitentiary. He and Ed...
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#LaquanMcDonald: As video released, cop charged with murder 1, activists...
by DeAngelo Bester, Workers Center for Racial Justice Chicago – The City of Chicago has just released, under court order, the dashcam video from the brutal killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a...
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Rev. Pinkney, marking one year in prison, endures the routine lies of prison...
by Geraldine Matthews On Dec. 14, civil rights leader and political prisoner Rev. Edward Pinkney will have spent a year in Michigan state prison. An all-white jury convicted him of five felony counts...
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I shed a tear
by DeAndre Williams With great joy, Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm Shabazz finally meet in 2010 after Malcolm was released from prison and traveled to Oakland to meet some of his strongest supporters...
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Parole threatened for organizing and writing for Bay View
by Anthony Robinson Jr. The Code of California Regulations (CCR) Title 15 defines a Security Threat Group (STG) as “any ongoing formal or informal organization, association, or group of three or more...
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Thanksgiving on Death Row
by Kevin Cooper Death Row, San Quentin, Calif. – As I sit here in a 4½-by-11-foot cage on Thanksgiving Day, I first and foremost am thankful to be alive. On Feb. 10, 2004, I came within three hours and...
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The forgotten one: Sentenced to 500 years though no one was hurt
by Leah Metzler I was recently able to view a documentary titled “The Cooler Bandits.” It’s the story of four young men who were sentenced to hundreds of years in prison for robbing Akron, Ohio, area...
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Vow of Silence
The very presence of a person in silence can cause a myriad of responses but invites us to think more deeply, as silence removes anything to push against except our own inner turmoil. by Ronnie Lashan...
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