The nationâs best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, marked the 45th anniversary of the MOVE organization with recollections of when MOVE members were undergound in Rochester, New York. There, they âlived a life of peace that was unthinkable in Philadelphia,â because âthey lived out of the eye of a merciless media,â he said. âAbsent the âzone of negativity by the media, people met MOVE as people, and loved them.â In contrast, police and media hostility to MOVE in the City of Brotherly Love led to life sentences for nine MOVE members in 1978, and the bombing of the MOVE residence in 1985, killing eleven members, including five children.
This weekâs featured scholar is Kathryn Benjamin Golden. Golden is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at University of Delaware. Her article is ââArmed in the Great Swampâ: Fear, MaroonâŚ
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This weekâs featured author is Carole Boyce Davies. Davies is the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters atâŚ
Alex Saabâs April 6 hearing takes place in the setting of a mercurial world situation, where events in Ukraine may have indirect bearing on his case and on the larger US economic war againstâŚ
The allure of Black representation in high places can be very dangerous. A Black man organizes an unprecedented union victory but gets less attention than one celebrity slappingâŚ
Former political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim is still not treated as a free man. In this case, the State University of New York at Brockport succumbed to political pressure and moved hisâŚ
