Category: Articles
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How Netflix And “Manning Marable” Killed Malcolm X (The Third Time)
by ANDREW STEWART At the outset, it is impossible to deny the vital role that the volume A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marrable’s…
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The Revolution On Your Momma’s Coffee Table: Lerone Bennett Jr., Black Power, Pan-Africanism and the Schizophrenia of Ebony Magazine, 1966-1976
It’s September 1966, and the regular reader of Ebony gets the sinking feeling that its jali, Lerone Bennett Jr., is a little…
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BREAKING (NON-) NEWS: Attention, Mumia! No Reading (About the Young Lords Party) Allowed!
Why could Mumia Abu-Jamal receive books on Death Row in the 1980s, 1990s and 00s but is severely restricted in his ability…
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WORDS MEAN THINGS: RECLAIMING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. FROM THE GRIPS OF IMPERIALISM
by Devyn Springer KING’S SPIRIT IS THAT OF A TRUE REVOLUTIONARY WHICH CAN NEVER BE DISTORTED TO THE POINT OF NO RETURN,…
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Why Isn’t Donald Trump Headed to Jail?
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson On January 3, 2020 Donald Trump had Qasem Soleimni, an Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard…
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Redux
As he completes his magnum opus trilogy on the American empire, Abu-Jamal revisits two of his books Commentary by Todd Steven Burroughs…
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That Time Toni Morrison Edited Muhammad Ali’s Autobiography
“‘I don’t like boxing, but he was a thing apart. His grace was almost appalling.” — Toni Morrison on Muhammad Ali, in the…
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BOOK REVIEW: Mumia Abu-Jamal And His Film Biographer Detail, And Damn To Hell, America’s Eternal War Machine
Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide and Manifest Destiny. Book Two: America’s Favorite Pastime. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. Foreword by S. Brian Wilson,…
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Indiana Prisons Engage in Suicidal Malpractice
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson As a captive population, prisoners have no choices about what, if any, medical and mental health care they…
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Book Review: The Solitary Fox and The Death/Lifetime Mumia Abu-Jamal
Solitary: Unbroken by Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope. By Albert Woodfox with Leslie George. New York: Grove…
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Dr. James Turner: Internal Colonialism Summarized
In this never before published short interview with Dr. James Turner, legendary founding Chair of the Africana Studies and Research Center at…
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An iMWiL! EXCLUSIVE: Book Excerpt: POLICE FORCED: The Case of Earl Faison, By Lawrence Hamm (with Annette M. Alston)
Thursday night, the People’s Organization for Progress, a New Jersey progressive activist group, will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the police killing…
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That Time Rutgers-Newark Black Students Took Over Conklin Hall 50 Years Ago, Renaming It “Liberation Hall”
Pictured above: Members of the Rutgers University Black Organization of Students (BOS) unfurl a banner renaming Rutgers-Newark’s Conklin Hall in February of…
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Curriculum Wars and the Heroification of White Supremacy
The following is an edited summary of comments made previously during The Angela Project (2017) conference and were initially slated for publication…