The Supreme Court has ruled against prominent former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, tossing an appeal that would nullify his death sentence. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a lower court must revisit its earlier ruling granting a new sentencing hearing. Abu-Jamal himself petitioned for a new trial last year. His petition was thrown out as […]

Mumia Abu Jamal supporters to pressure Obama and Holder. After spending over 28 years on Pennsylvania’s death-row – most of them in solitary confinement – and exhausting many of his appeals, the hour-glass continues to slowly slip away on the man known as ‘The Voice For The Voiceless’. Mumia Abu Jamal supporters are being asked […]

“We recognize that Barack Hussein Obama is white power in Black face,” yelled Omali Yeshitela, leader of the Black is Back coalition, into a megaphone as she marched outside of the White House. “Hundreds” of Black Americans peacefully protested President Obama’s current initiatives during his first year in office. More than 200 hundred people were […]