Art and Essay by Kevin Rashid Johnson On May 24, 2020, a crowd of onlookers witnessed the slow death by asphyxiation of a handcuffed Black man in Minneapolis. This was a public lynching. Only, unlike in times past, this crowd didn’t cheer but instead pleaded over and over for the cop who murdered George Floyd,…
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On today’s episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by Eddie Conway, Executive Producer with The Real News Network who was a leading member of the Baltimore branch of the Black Panther Party and a political prisoner for 44 years, and Dr. Jared Ball, a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University,…
Read moreMumia Abu-Jamal: A Redux
Todd Steven Burroughs Reviews, Black August, iMWiL!, Media Studies, Political Prisoners, Africana Studies
As he completes his magnum opus trilogy on the American empire, Abu-Jamal revisits two of his books Commentary by Todd Steven Burroughs On this Wednesday night commemorating the 50th anniversary of Panther blood spilled, Mumia Abu-Jamal awaits the spring publication of the third and final volume of Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, Manifest Destiny. Meanwhile, he…
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