Philadelphia

Cuba’s Mariela Castro receives LGBT Equality Award

Mariela Castro Espín, the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) in Havana, Cuba, and a deputy…

May 9, 2013

‘Long Distance Revolutionary’: #1 documentary in Philadelphia

Philadelphia — In one of many milestones in the decades-long movement to free political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, the documentary film "Long…

May 7, 2013

Rallies on Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 59th birthday demand his release

Philadelphia — On April 24, in celebration of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 59th birthday, hundreds of people from several East Coast cities…

April 26, 2013

Behind Newark cancellation of ‘Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary’

In December 1981, award-winning journalist and political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal was accused of killing a Philadelphia police officer. While professing…

April 25, 2013

Protest to demand Newark theater show film on Mumia

After weeks of promotional planning, Cityplex-12, Newark’s [N.J.] only major movie theater complex, announced Thursday, April 11, that it was…

April 25, 2013

Book launch for ‘Maroon the Implacable’

For over 30 years, former Black Panther member and Philadelphia community activist, Russell Maroon Shoatz, has been held under torturous…

April 11, 2013

On his birthday, April 24: All out to Free Mumia!

With a rally and a community organizing meeting planned for the anniversary of his 59th birthday, supporters of political prisoner Mumia…

April 1, 2013

Penn students protest privatization

Philadelphia — Just the threat of students protesting was enough to send the Boston Consulting Group running. BCG, a major cheerleader…

March 28, 2013

Community protests police beating

Community members and activists marched and rallied in support of Aida Guzman on March 9 on Lehigh Avenue between 5th…

March 17, 2013

‘Picking up Harriet’s Rifle’

Under the theme “Picking up Harriet’s Rifle!” an amazing and inspiring intergenerational panel of Black female revolutionaries gathered in Philadelphia…

March 16, 2013