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.
No one in the Biden camp has spoken out against the past, present, and future war crimes which will undoubtedly shape the administration.
As part of our mission to supplement BARâs historical perspective, the Black Agenda Review examines the Harlem meeting and manifesto that shook the Black world, a century ago.
It wasnât led by lineage of Robert E. Leeâ it was nuts demanding healthcare for free! It wasnât a lynch mob, a putsch, or a coupâ what good does divisive descriptions do?
White supremacist culture is a permanent site of predatory consumption, extraction and violation.
The federal governmentâs stimulus payments and the role of black police officers were on your minds.
