All posts tagged "Gender"
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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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Mumia is a Yogi
By Jamila K. Wilson Breathe…Breathe. Deep breaths. Allow your inhale to expand your belly, and intentionally press your bellybutton back into your body. Use this breath...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal and My Survival
By Gabriel Teodros A distant father figure who I’ve never once met. A living hero who’s words written from a prison cell had a deeper effect...
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Remember
By Micol Seigel In the winter of 2001-2002, the dust of the Twin Towers continued to settle, it seemed to me, along with the snow. ...
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Trayvon Triptych (a poem)
By Quincy Scott Jones I. George Zimmerman Presses the Mute Button They say I was angry The same country that promotes drunks and pot...
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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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Feminists We Love: Andrea J. Ritchie
Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian police misconduct attorney and organizer who has engaged in extensive research, writing, litigation, organizing and advocacy on profiling, policing, and...
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*Pretty Sparkly Things: A Black Girl’s Encounter with the Prison Industrial Complex
I love clothes. I always have. As a black girl coming of age in the early 1990s, I was up on all the adornment trends:...
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Long Distance Revolutionary: An Intergenerational Conversation
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Clyde Gumbs and Jared Gumbs This summer I attended a screening of Prison Radio’s film about Mumia Abu-Jamal, Long Distance Revolutionary. Mumia...
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The Making of Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary
By Noelle Hanrahan Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary is an inspiring portrait of a man whom many consider America’s most famous political prisoner – a man whose...
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Excerpts from Sir by HR Hegnauer
Dear Sir, I am afraid to say, I love you — a collection of simple sounds. I know this is the softest room in...
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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...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Until the Last One…
By Olivia N. Jones, Mount Holyoke College ‘14 September 14, 2013 was Marissa Alexander’s 33rd birthday. It is undoubtedly incredibly unfortunate that this black mother...
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“Fire in the Skies”: Introduction to the Mumia and Mass Incarceration Forum
On December 9, 1981, journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested and later charged and convicted for murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. The prosecution’s...
