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Mumia Abu-Jamal’s spiritual advisor confronts DA Krasner and the FOP May 21, 2021 An interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, founder of Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal This new mural featuring Pam and Ramona Africa alongside other Black women community activists was unveiled on May 11, 2021 directly across the street from Philadelphia City Hall, on the very same block where the infamous statue of Frank Rizzo once stood. Photo: Jamal Journal staff photographer Joe Piette by the Jamal Journal May 21, 2021 – Mark Lewis Taylor has been a professor in religion and society at Princeton Theologica...

Brew the coffee, strike out the amphetamines and the matchsticks for the eyes, discard the cilice (watch the spikes don’t blind the dog) – it’s the night of exquisite and prolonged torture for dedicated film-worshippers throughout the world. It’s the Oscars, topped and tailed by hours of ersatz fawning by people who, behind the smiles and designer masks, hate the talent and wish they had the wherewithal to be them. This one is going to be different, of course. It’s been “pandemicised” although the organisers aren’t coughing (Covid nudge, nudge) about the details of how i...

Reviewed by Stephen Rohde I miss Michael Ratner.  We all should. I met Michael when we were both students at Columbia Law School in the late 60’s. He was smart and funny.  I joined the student chapter of the National Lawyers Guild that he had helped establish.  It was described in the yearbook as dedicated to the proposition that “America’s law schools and legal system should, for the first time, begin to respond to the needs of the masses of American people, and not the wishes of the Rep-Dem Party, the Mafia, and General Motors, its subsidiaries, and apologists.”  Members of the ...