Activism
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Poem for Audre Lorde
By asha bandele Author’s note: Audre Lorde was my teacher and my mentor. This poem, written two years after her transition into the Spirit world,...
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TFW at Black Women’s Blueprint’s Fourth Annual Mother Tongue Monologues
On Saturday, February 8, 2014, Black Women’s Blueprint hosted their Fourth Annual Mother Tongue Monologues for Truth Bearing Women, for Emerging Sons, and Other Keepers...
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Op Ed: It’s Time to Answer the Call for Mobile Education
By Laura Odenthal As ringtones interrupt class and texting diverts attention, it is no wonder that many teachers view cell phones as a classroom distraction....
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TFW’s Co-Founder Tamura A. Lomax, to Speak at Barnard College
TFW Co-Founder and Managing Editor Tamura Lomax will be speaking at the Locations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices conference hosted by the Barnard College Center...
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Mumia: An Ironic Icon
By Soffiyah Elijah Mumia Abu-Jamal seems at times to be bigger than life. Many around the globe revere him, while law enforcement authorities despise him. His...
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Mumia on Religion, Empire, and Gender
By Mark Lewis Taylor While Mumia endured 50 days in solitary confinement, transiting from 29 years on death row to the general prison population in 2012,...
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Schooling the Generations: Education and the Relevance of Mumia Abu-Jamal in Times of Crisis
By Christopher M. Tinson Creating a classroom environment that fosters radical education first requires courage to confront uncomfortable truths about American society. Introducing students to Mumia...
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Silencing the Record: Misrepresentation, Gender Politics, and Truth in the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Johanna Fernandez In the last week, conservative media outlets zealously revisited the case of celebrated political prisoner and radio journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. This time...
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Confined Writers and Their Criminal Writings
By Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell Last month, The New York Times reported a discovery made in Rochester, New York about what we now know as...
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Re-imagining Black Power
By Nyle Fort If Black Power were a play who would be its main characters? What would be its major themes? And what scenes would develop...
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My North Star: How Mumia Abu-Jamal Led Me To Activism
By Walidah Imarisha In high school in a small town in Oregon, I found guidance in the most unlikely of places. Mrs. Borrevick wore bright...
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From Mumia to Rasmea: Political incarceration in the belly of the beast- from Black Liberation to Arab Freedom
By Layli Kristy Feghali Coming of age as a young US-born Arab woman in the post 9/11 era, Mumia’s case drew clear attention to the...
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Assata Shakur is Welcome Here: Bringing Political Prisoners Back Into the Fold
By Meron Wondwosen Every generation honors its live conformists and its dead trouble makers—Mignon McLaughlin It was November 5th 2005 and my first cousin was...
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Sunny Days?: Sesame Street, Prisons and the Politics of Justice
With Nelson Mandela’s funeral on the television, Sammy, who is 6, turned to me with a question that quickly grabbed my attention. Having already discussed...
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How to Build a Prison (a poem)
By Quincy Scott Jones for Philadelphia, USA 1. Always hated that building and never knew why The one right before the on-ramp for...
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10 Facts about the Mumia Abu-Jamal Case
By Johanna Fernandez 1. Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent. Mumia has been wrongfully imprisoned for 32 years. He spent the first 28.5 years of his imprisonment on Pennsylvania’s...
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How I Use Pinterest To Explore the Difficulties of Violence Against Black Women and Girls
By Sonya Donaldson When I first used Pinterest, it was with the same intent and fervor of many of those who create boards that feature fashion,...
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How Anti-violence Activism Taught Me to Become a Prison Abolitionist
By Beth E. Richie Sometimes we learn our most profound political lessons in the contours of our everyday activism. This is certainly the case for me...
