Black America

Formerly and currently incarcerated organizers are fighting back against Alabama’s rigged carceral system, an institution upholding a system of modern-day slavery in the southern state. Organizers imprisoned at the St. Clair Correctional Facility have organized a “shutdown” of the prison to protest the shockingly inhumane conditions of state facilities and...

Supporters of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal are calling for urgent action as his health takes a serious decline and he continues to battle the state for his life. Mumia, who will turn 70 next month, has been unjustly incarcerated for over 41 years, where he has spent the majority of...

Activists are demanding answers after 215 dead bodies were found buried in unmarked graves behind a prison in Hinds County, Mississippi. Multiple families of the deceased have stepped forward, asserting that the State never informed them about their loved ones’ deaths and that the burials occurred without their knowledge. Rev....

Following weeks of right-wing, pro-Israel attacks accusing her of being insufficiently Zionist, Harvard’s President, Claudine Gay, resigned from the university. But just how ‘anti-Zionist’ is Gay? Amari Butler and Kojo Acheampong, organizers with the African and African American Resistance Organization at Harvard, join the show to discuss the intense harassment...

As 2023 comes to a close, Amanda Yee, a Journalist and the Managing Editor of Liberation News, joins the show to wrap up the biggest US domestic stories of the year. Amanda, Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear discuss: the continued upsurge of labor, re-loaded McCarthyism and the new Cold War...

Sean Blackmon, an organizer with the ANSWER Coalition, explains the rich history of Black and Palestinian solidarity and how this continues today amid Israel’s genocidal siege on Gaza. 

Jamie Peck, co-host of the Everybody Loves Communism podcast and an organizer with the Block Cop City Coalition, joins the show to discuss the upcoming mass action against the construction of the police militarization facility in Atlanta, Georgia which activists call “Cop City.”

The Georgia Attorney General’s office charged 61 activists under the state’s racketeering, or RICO, statute, for opposing the construction of the $90 million police militarization facility in Atlanta, which activists call “Cop City.” Keyanna Jones, a ‘Stop Cop City’ organizer with Community Movement Builders, discusses the ongoing state repression on...

August 11th marked the 50th anniversary of the “birth of hip-hop.” Claudia De La Cruz, Co-Executive Director of The People’s Forum, discusses the genesis and impact of what is now the world’s biggest musical genre. 

On July 6, former political prisoner Dr. Mutulu Shakur passed away at 72. Dr. Shakur spent 37 years in prison following the mass suppression of the Black liberation movement of the 1960s and 70s and was only released from prison in 2022 after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Kalonji Changa,...