Mumia Abu-Jamal's Radio Essays
951 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 8 years ago - ★★★★★ - 96 ratingsMumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist who chronicles the human condition. He has been a resident of Pennsylvania's death row for twenty-five years. Writing from his solitary confinement cell his essays have reached a worldwide audience. His books "Live From Death Row", "Death Blossoms", "All Things Censored", "Faith of Our Fathers" and "We Want Freedom" have sold over 150,000 copies and been translated into nine languages. His 1982-murder trial and subsequent conviction have been the subject of great debate. Major issues in the trial have led to a worldwide campaign to gain Mumia a new trial and, ultimately, to gain his freedom.
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Episodes
The Politician and the Preacher
March 16, 2008 23:21 - 3 minutes - 2.07 MBThe recent quasi-controversy over the comments made by the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, retired pastor of the United Church of Christ, to which Sen. Barack Obama (D.IL), both belongs and attends, has shown us how limited, and how narrow, is this new politics peddled by the freshman Senator from Chicago. Although first popularized via the web, the Reverend's comments caused Sen. Obama to say he was "appalled" by them, and he has repudiated such remarks as "offensive." Just what were these comme...
Frederick Douglass: The Freedom of Some or the Freedom of All
February 09, 2008 18:40 - 4 minutes - 2.6 MB-undefined-
It Ain't the Voting That Counts, It's the Counting
January 18, 2008 00:06 - 3 minutes - 1.77 MB-undefined-
Omaha Night
December 09, 2007 01:36 - 2 minutes - 1.23 MBMumia's columns need to be published as broadly as possible to inspire progressive movement and help call attention to his case. The campaign to kill Mumia is in full swing and we need you to please contact as many publications and information outlets as you possibly can to run Mumia's commentaries (on-line and especially off-line)!! The only requirements are that you run them unedited, with every word including copyright information intact, and send a copy of the publication to Mumia and/or...
Teaching False History and Its Consequences
December 08, 2007 20:26 - 3 minutes - 1.73 MB-undefined-
The Obama Factor (and women's vote as a factor)
November 28, 2007 02:19 - 4 minutes - 2.02 MB-undefined-
Echoes of a Freedom Struggle: A book Review of Muhammad Ahmad's "We Will Return in the Whirlwind Black Organizations 1960-1975"
November 25, 2007 02:16 - 5 minutes - 2.58 MB-undefined-