Murder, Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, Manifest Destiny. Book Three: Perfecting Tyranny. By Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. Foreword by Angela Y. Davis. San Francisco: Prison Radio, 385 pp.,...
It was announced Sunday night that Russell "Maroon" Shoatz, a political prisoner in the tradition of George Jackson and so many others, has added COVID to his fourth-stage cancer diagnosis. The...
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. Les Payne and Tamara Payne. New York: Liverlight. 537 pp., $35. Reviewed by Todd Steven BurroughsIt must be great to be a renowned-but-recently-deceased...
Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest For Justice. Nkechi Taifa. Foreword by Greg Carr. Washington, D.C.: House of Songhay II., 379 pp. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs Back in the days...
Glaude sits back from a safe distance on our MSNBC screens, away from Baldwin's edginess while constantly acknowledging it. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our...
The harassment of radical senior citizen Mumia Abu-Jamal continues, even during a pandemic. It's not enough that's he's been in jail for almost 40 years (he turns 66 on April 24). Now Pennsylvania...
It’s September 1966, and the regular reader of Ebony gets the sinking feeling that its jali, Lerone Bennett Jr., is a little disconcerted. In the article, the magazine editor and history book...
Why could Mumia Abu-Jamal receive books on Death Row in the 1980s, 1990s and 00s but is severely restricted in his ability to receive books in 2020, even though he is in general population? In the...
