Canadian talk show host George Stroumboulopoulos got Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino to sound off on the drug war Wed. Dec. 19. Here's the transcript, watch the video below: "This whole thing of the War on Drugs and the mass incarceration that has happened pretty much for the las... Read more...

I should know - it reminds me of what I went through as a little boy, when my mother and father, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were arrested, then executed when I was six. Will you stand with today’s children who are suffering because of their parents work for social justice? Right now, activ... Read more...

Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million - mostly Black and Hispanic - are working for various industries for a pittance. F... Read more...

Days of Rage, Rebellion and Revolution A Book Review By Mumia Abu-Jamal Love and Struggle: My Life with SDS, the Weather Underground and Beyond, by David Gilbert. (Oakland, CA: PM Press, forthcoming—December 2011). Perhaps it is the times: the election of a Black preside... Read more...

' Rosa Our Rosa by Mumia Abu-Jamal For Mumia Abu-Jamal, I am Goldie, his daughter. For Mumia Abu-Jamal, I am Frances Goldin. We gather today over 140 years after the birthday of Rosa Luxemburg – The brilliant thinker, writer, activist and ... Read more...

 A new commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal a holiday message written from SCI Greene just prior to transfer entitled, 'Slow Death Row.' 1) 1:35 'Slow Death Row' Mp3 Jan. 1st 2012 Prison Radio announces that it will continue to record and distribute Mumia Abu-Jamal's radio essays in the face of St... Read more...

Honor Troy Davis Free Mumia Abu-Jamal 011 0:30 pm CONSTITUTION CENTER, PHILADELPHIA SPEAKERS: Cornel West Michelle Alexander (by video) Ramona Africa Michael Coard Vijay Prashad Louisa Hanoune Mark Lamont Hill Immortal Technique Amiri and Amina Baraka And more â... Read more...

Several months ago I reported on the firing of a trio of high-ranking prison officials in connection with a series of sexual assaults in a Southwestern Pennsylvania prison. Few news agencies took up the story especially national ones. This was astounding given the nature of the charges: p... Read more...

Ever since the Democrats established the legality of mandatory minimums and three-strike laws under the leadership of the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, African Americans have literally had the book thrown at them and the key thrown away. Regardless of circumstances, as convicted felons they a... Read more...