Archiv vom 25. Oktober 2013

  • Mumias Columns & Prison Radio comments

    JESSICA HUNTLEY: Woman of the Word

    Artikel vom 25. Oktober 2013

    [col. writ. 10/25/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
     
    When news arrived of the passing of Black book publisher and bookstore, owner, Jessica Huntley of London, England, I found that sadness wasn’t my primary response.  Happiness was.

    Why? Because by merely reading her name, the image of her brilliant smile filled my mind, and I felt the rush of her deep and abiding love for Black people, the world […]

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    MUSIC OF THE SOUL

    Artikel vom 25. Oktober 2013

    [col. writ. 10/25/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
     
    From the first arrival of Africans on the shores and islands of the Americas as captives, music, and often acapella (or without instrumentation) became the central tool of communication.
    Chained together like two-legged cattle, under the fierce gaze of gun-toting guards (called ‘overseers’), working from sun-up to sun-down, only the songs of those among us kept us alive in mind […]

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