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They Convicted Assata Shakur on ZERO Evidence

Assata Shakur was convicted of murder in 1977. No fingerprints on any weapon. No gunpowder residue on her hands. A neurosurgeon testified it was "anatomically impossible" for her to have fired a gun. The prosecution's star witness, Trooper James Harper, admitted under oath that he lied in all three…

CLASSIFIED 2013: Why the FBI Called Assata Shakur a Terrorist

Assata Shakur died in Havana, Cuba, on September 25, 2025, at age 78. To the U.S. government, she remained a terrorist—the FBI added her to its Most Wanted Terrorists list in 2013, making her the first woman ever placed there. To others, she was a freedom fighter who survived a system they believed…

Assata Shakurs Untold Story Escape Exile Legacy

On May 2, 1973, New Jersey State Troopers pulled over a car on the New Jersey Turnpike. By the end of the encounter, Trooper Werner Foerster and Zayd Malik Shakur were dead, and Assata Shakur had been shot twice — once with her hands raised.0:00 Introduction4:00 The Turnpike Shooting5:40 The Trial1…

True Narratives: Part II Kidnapped, Terrorized, and Still Coming.

We are back in the cypher. And this is Black August. Black August calls us into remembrance, study, discipline, resistance, and the ongoing struggle for freedom. It asks us to remember those who fought for liberation, and to reckon with what freedom requires of us now.  This season on Audio Nuggets…

In The Belly Black August '26 Ft. Kevin "Rashid" Johnson & Pierre "Polo" Pinson

This episode features readings and discussion from the 2026 Black August issue of In the Belly, a prisoner-led abolitionist magazine. The hosts discuss pieces by Pierre "Polo" Pinson and Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, alongside poetry by Assata Shakur and a poem featured in Judas and the Black Messiah. To…

Culture is the Seed of Resistance

Art and culture have always been at the heart of Black community resilience and resistance. In this episode of Dark Work, host Jaribu Hill speaks with Jackson State University Professor Mark Henderson, founder and artistic director of the performance troupe MADDRAMA. Professor Henderson also serves…

Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration w/ Benjamin Weber

In this episode: A four-hundred-year reckoning with the colonial workings of the carceral state and resistance against it. We talk about how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of US power around the globe as well as the power of prison resistance, from the Seminol…

DSA Calls for ICE “Annihilation” and Trials | Angie Nixon Quotes Cop-Killer Assata Shakur in Church, El-Sayed Recruits Hassan Piker, Fake PA Measles Deaths Exposed

Drew Steele breaks down a DSA meeting demanding not just abolish ICE but political annihilation, trials for agency leaders, and permanent black marks—rhetoric he ties to Squad Democrats and the party’s leftward shift. Coverage includes Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed reaching out to Hassan…

275. The Very Dark Side of Celebrity

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.com Nancy and Sarah discuss a Netflix documentary called The Unabomber in His Own Words, which came out years ago but has taken on new depth in our current mess. Ted Kaczynski’s random violence and mythologizing f…

White People Talking About Whiteness | Eleanor Hancock

Many, if not most, white people don't think of themselves as racialized. Race, we might tell ourselves, is an issue for people who have different skin colors than ours: black people, Hispanic people, Asian people, indigenous people, etcetera. But, of course, white is a racial category. (Important s…