“‘I don’t like boxing, but he was a thing apart. His grace was almost appalling.” — Toni Morrison on Muhammad Ali, in the David Remnick book King of the World Muhammad Ali, dethroned by the United States of America but still a baadddd dude, was looking for a publisher for his autobiography in 1970. Five years…
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Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide and Manifest Destiny. Book Two: America’s Favorite Pastime. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. Foreword by S. Brian Wilson, Afterword by David Swanson. Prison Radio, 504 pp. $27. By Todd Steven Burroughs WHO KNEW THAT Superman was once an anti-war socialist? In Superman No. 1, published by DC Comics in 1939, the…
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By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson As a captive population, prisoners have no choices about what, if any, medical and mental health care they receive. And, in most cases in U.S. prisons, any care given is substandard at best. But even under these conditions, the courts have long found unacceptable and banned as unconstitutional the use of…
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