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All things censored / Mumia Abu-Jamal ; edited by Noelle Hanrahan ; foreword by Alice Walker.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abu-Jamal, Mumia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abu-Jamal, Mumia.
- Death row inmates--United States--Biography.
- Death row inmates.
- African American prisoners--United States--Biography.
- African American prisoners.
- Prisoners' writings, American.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- United States.
- Prisons--United States.
- Prisons.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Other Title:
- Accompanying sound disc has title: Banned
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Seven Stories Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- All Things Censored is Mumia Abu-Jamal's major new release with 79 writings, many freshly composed by Mumia with the cartridge of a ball-point pen--the only implement he is allowed in his death-row cell.
- Abu-Jamal writes on a host of topics, including the ironies that abound within the U.S. prison system, the consequences of those ironies for us all, and his own case. Mumia's composure, humor, and connection to the living world around him represent an irrefutable victory over the "corrections" system that has for two decades sought to isolate and silence him.
- His conviction for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer has been contested on various constitutional, legal, and moral grounds. As of this writing, he lives and writes with an execution date hanging over his head, and is still banned from the airwaves and television (as all Pennsylvania prisoners now are).
- The title, All Things Censored, alludes to Mumia's hiring as an on-air columnist by National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," and subsequent banning from that venue under pressure from law and order groups. To this day, these unique and rare recordings by Mumia (produced by Prison Radio) remain under lock and key in the vaults of NPR.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Lethal Censorship / Noelle Hanrahan 21
- Scenes
- From an Echo in Darkness, a Step into Light NPR Censored 34
- The Sense of Censory 49
- Another Write-Up ... for Rapping! 51
- A Bright, Shining Hell 55
- No Law, No Rights 57
- A Letter from Prison 59
- The Visit 61
- Black August 63
- A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire 66
- Meeting with a Killer 69
- Manny's Attempted Murder 71
- Days of Pain, Night of Death 73
- An Uncivil Action 76
- Perspectives
- Mother Loss and Father Hunger 96
- Musings on "Mo" and Marshall 100
- Philly Daze 103
- Words from an Outcast from the Fourth Estate 105
- Deadly Drug Raid 118
- First Amendment Rites 120
- A Rap Thing 124
- PEN Award Acceptance Speech 126
- Absence of Power 128
- A Crisis in Black Leadership 130
- Liberty Denied in Its Cradle 132
- Slavery Daze II 135
- Memories of Huey 137
- To War! For Empire! 140
- Capture Him, Beat Him, and Treat Him Like Dirt 142
- The Lost Generation? 144
- May 13 Remembered 146
- And They Call MOVE "Terrorists"! 150
- Justice Denied 153
- Justice for Geronimo Stolen by Star Chamber 157
- Eddie Hatcher Fights for His Life! 160
- Seeds of Wisdom 162
- Sweet Roxanne 164
- A House is Not a Home 166
- Men of Cloth 168
- Prisons vs. Preschools 171
- Raised Hope, Fallen Disappointment 173
- With Malice toward Many 175
- Legalized Cop Violence 177
- A Drug that Ain't a Drug 180
- How, Now, Mad Cow? 182
- Essays on Justice
- De Profundis 194
- Five Hundred Years: Celebrations or Demonstrations? 196
- The Illusion of "Democracy" 198
- A Nation in Chains 200
- Live from Death Row 202
- War on the Poor 205
- Why a War on the Poor? 207
- The Death Game 209
- Black March to Death Row 213
- On Death Row, Fade to Black 215
- Fred Hampton Remembered 219
- "Law" That Switches from Case to Case 221
- Two Blacks, Two Georgians 223
- Cancellation of the Constitution 225
- L.A. Outlaw 227
- Media is the Mirage 229
- True African-American History 231
- When Ineffective Means Effective 233
- Death: The Poor's Prerogative? 235
- Legalized Crime 237
- Campaign of Repression: Attack on the Life of the Mind 239
- Musings on Malcolm 242
- In Defense of Empire 244
- Build a Better Mousetrap 246
- Haitians Need Not Apply 248
- Rostock, Germany, and Anti-Immigrant Violence 250
- NAFTA: A Pact Made in Hell 252
- Fujimori Bans the Bar in Peru 254
- South Africa 256
- Warlust
- Again! (Iraq II) 258
- What, to a Prisoner, is the Fourth of July? 260
- A Death Row Remembrance of the Rosenbergs
- Never Again? 262
- Expert Witness from Hell 264
- Zapatista Dreams 266
- What Made the Acteal Massacre Possible?? 269
- Conversation Between Mumia and Noelle minutes after his 1995 Death Warrant was read to Mumia in his cell 271
- Notes on the composition and recording of the texts 279
- The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal / C. Clark Kissinger 288.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1583220224 :
- OCLC:
- 43317765
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