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Recommended Reading from Mumia
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
31 Jul 2018
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The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, has high praise for historian Robin D.G. Kelly’s book Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Depression. “Who knew that there were hundreds, possibly thousands of Black communists organizing in Alabama during the 1930s?” Abu Jamal asked. Kelly’s books “is nothing short of a revelation.”

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