An African mother agonizes over the police killing of her son
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM ‘I Thought A Nice Country Like This Would Protect Us' EL CAJON, Calif.–The name Alfred Olango has been added to the list...
National Prison Strike Demands Mirror Calls For Respect For Human Rights 45 Years Ago
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM Dee had been incarcerated in a prison in the Carolinas for more than two decades when he helped organize a national...
National day of non-violence promotes peace, change in the ’hood
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES–Demon-strators across the country mobilized for 24 hours of peace with no drug distribution, no crime, and no violence during...
Is The Water Unsafe To Drink In Pennsylvania Prison?
By Gregory Muhammad Pam Africa is the head of International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Philadelphia-based organization at the center of the...
Supporting Juvenile Lifers Getting New Sentences
By Gregory Muhammad .According to a May 2016 report, approximately 500 juvenile lifers are in the Pennsylvania State Prison System. This is unacceptable to...
Nashville Prison Reform Ministry’An Example Of 10,000 Fearless
By Flarrie K. Muhammad Surah 110 in the Holy Qur'an: Al-Nasr (The Help) states, “In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. When Allah's...
Phone calls, slave labor, vending and profits
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM How mass incarceration still feeds lucrative prison industrial complex in U.S. LOS ANGELES– Prison abolition groups are fighting to cut the tentacles...
More Questions Than Answers In Police Shooting Of Korryn Gaines
CHARLENEM And Nisa Islam Muhammad -Final Call Staffers- BALTIMORE– What started in early August by Baltimore County Police, as another day serving arrest warrants for...
Caught In The Crossfire— Black, Blue And Called To Protect And Serve
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM Black police officers are often caught between White peers accused of police violence and criminality while trying to protect and serve...
Voices From The Streets Talk Unity And Peace
By Charlene Muhammad CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES–Hope, optimism, and determination permeated the atmosphere during a recent gathering of Bloods and Crips, gang interventionists, community organizers,...