© 2026 by Mumia Abu-Jamal I always look to the ancestors, the old ones who came before us, who lived in these bodies before we were born; those who not only look like us, who walk like us, who talk like us, who dream like us, who feel like us, who weep like us; those who came before, those who suffered that which is today almost incomprehensible. Those are the people I [...]
By Marylin Cavanagh The killing of Charlie Kirk has triggered a wave of headlines, media trials, and a political spectacle where real justice seems to matter least. No one who defends human dignity can celebrate a death. Violence is not justice. But we also cannot accept that this case be used to silence dissent, whitewash years of hate speech, and normalize the idea that those who challenge political power and its mouthpieces [...]
© by Mumia Abu-Jamal The election is several weeks behind us. Yet why does it seem so close? So heavy upon the hearts of millions? It is at the very heart of the feeling of despair that follows like a dark cloud. Some wonder how did this happen? And of all the audiences affected by this debacle, few fear it as keenly as Black women, who must see it as a rejection [...]
The Democrats seeking to "flip" seats back to their party in CA all supported Prop. 36, which turned drug and petty property crimes into felonies, and the electorate followed suit, adopting the measure which strengthened the three strikes approach, and rejected Prop. 6, which would have abolished slavery (involuntary servitude) inside CA prisons. Voters also adopted a measure targeted at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, whose Housing is a Human Rights campaign has [...]
UK ruling on Julian Assange ‘killing him slowly’, say free speech advocates By John T Psaropoulos for Al Jazeera [Excerpts] Free speech advocates and experts have criticized a British court judgment for failing to stop WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US. Assange was ordered extradited from the United Kingdom in 2022 to face espionage charges in a court in Virginia in the US, and he has appealed that extradition. London’s [...]
© 2024 by Mumia Abu-Jamal Daniel Gwynn, a death row prisoner for almost 30 years, is now leaving death row and prison itself after his case was finally dismissed after the case fell apart. For almost 30 years Gwynn was subject to decades of solitary confinement under threat of imminent death and soul aching loneliness. Gwynn’s conviction stems from both a false confession and apparently tampering with witnesses by police and the [...]
© 2023 by Mumia Abu-Jamal How do we arrive at this place we call abolition? What are the roads to such a destination? We arrive from the almost-lost lessons of history, shaped by generations of ancestors who struggled their whole lives for that rare breath of freedom and yearned with all their hearts that we, their progeny, would one day breathe free air. For abolition stems from the long, hard struggle against [...]
Strategy & Soul Movement Center Presents: FREEDOM FIRST 2023 WORLD TOUR A Jazz Benefit Concert for Keith Lamar October 5th, 2023 7pm Strategy and Soul Theater 3546 Martin Luther King Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90008 Featuring Spoken Word by Keith Lamar FROM DEATH ROW Albert Marques – Piano Kazende George – Tenor Sax Yosemel Montego – Bass Zack O’Farril – Drums Keith Lamar in Conversation with Eric Mann Keith Lamar is [...]
