Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Mumia and Supporters Jubilant Over Prospects for New Trial
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
22 Apr 2019
🖨️ Print Article

“For the first time in years, our forces are building again, marching again,” said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner. “Common Pleas Court Judge Leon Tucker reinstated all [Abu Jamal’s] appeals that occurred over the last 15 years,” creating “an opportunity for Mumia to actually get back into court and argue for a new trial,” said Prison Radio producer Noelle Hanrahan. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s decision not to block appeals means “a case that was believed to be open and shut, by the powers that be, is now being reopened,” said Johanna Fernandez, of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home. Pam Africa, of International Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal, credited the breakthrough to the “power of the people working with the lawyers – everybody pulled together.”

Mass Black Incarceration

Related Podcasts

Involuntary Servitude in the Prison System
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Involuntary Servitude in the Prison System
24 June 2022
Savannah Eldrige is the founder of Coaliton to Abolish Slave
White Capitalist Law vs “Uncontrollable Blackness”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
White Capitalist Law vs “Uncontrollable Blackness”
01 September 2020
The United States “criminalizes Black Americans,” but Black men “are not looking to be controlled” by this racist system, said Douglas
 Getting Out the Word: #PrisonsKill
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Getting Out the Word: #PrisonsKill
25 August 2020
The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, IWOC, “is committed to the militant organizing of prisoners that takes its leadership and focus from

More Stories


  • The Crisis of White Squatters Rights
    Too Black
    The Crisis of White Squatters Rights
    20 Jan 2021
    The white ruling class is evicting the squatter-in-chief (Trump) for violating the class collaborative agreement.
  • Police Shouldn’t Tag Students as Potential Criminals 
    Priyam Madhukar
    Police Shouldn’t Tag Students as Potential Criminals 
    20 Jan 2021
    When cops create lists of kids “at risk” of falling into crime, it becomes a self-fulfilling indictment.
  • Activists Are Mobilizing to Create an Eviction-Free United States
    Eleanor J. Bader 
    Activists Are Mobilizing to Create an Eviction-Free United States
    20 Jan 2021
    Rent strikers are doing all they can to stop the violence of evictions and promote a vision of collective and community ownership of housing for everyone.
  • End SARS and Fanon’s Mission
    Kehinde Alonge
    End SARS and Fanon’s Mission
    20 Jan 2021
    What is the direction of the mission that falls upon each generation of young Nigerians?
  • Venezuela Sends Oxygen Tanks to Brazilian Amazon State
    Peoples Dispatch Staff
    Venezuela Sends Oxygen Tanks to Brazilian Amazon State
    20 Jan 2021
    Despite being deeply-sanctioned by the US, Venezuela is sharing medical resources with its neighbor. “Latin American solidarity above all!”
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us