It’s been exactly a year and a half since Virginia prison officials had clinical evidence from PSA blood tests that I have prostate cancer and ten months since my cancer was definitively diagnosed by biopsy at the
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The National Coordinating Committee of Prison Lives Matter (PLM) has taken on the work of organizing to bring home our elder political prisoners and prisoners of war, who, as Comrade Kwame Shakur has pointed out, have been in
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PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND CRIMINAL INJUSTICE IN VIRGINIA:
Statement in Support of January 14, 2023 Rally in Support of Virginia Prisoners (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
I have sat down with numerous Virginia prisoners asking
… Read the restNow available in two formats — click here to download Main Line #9 in small print, appropriate for mailing in a single regular envelope, or click here to download Main Line #9 in larger print, easier to read.
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On July 1, 2022 I was informed by a prison doctor here at Virginia’s Nottoway Correctional (sic!) Center (NCC) that I had tested positive for prostate cancer.
This diagnosis came after I had been left for months by NCC medical
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The Most Beautiful Body Art (2023)
By Kevin Rashid Johnson
Muscles expanding
To accommodate
A life demanding
More space
The embrace,
And growth
Of nature’s
Ultimate truth,
Consumed
Within her womb
A budding
Youth.
Skin tight
Against the might
Of
MOTHER AFRIKA (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Mother Afrika
The path to ya
Has been lost to ya
Children,
Here in Amerika
They’ve disparaged ya
To alienate our feelings.
Not a word of ya
Wealth the west
WHY AFGHANISTAN?
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Why the Afghan invasion
Was it so the people could be free,
Or to control gas
Deposits in the Caspian sea?
It came after 9/11
When Amerika targeted its own,
Three towers
SOME THOUGHTS ON ADVOCACY VERSUS SERVING THE PEOPLE IN REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP (2022)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
SERVING THE PEOPLE AND MY POLITICAL GROWTH
In discussing the differences between advocacy and serving the people, I want to begin with an account
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH ALL YEAR (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
There are some of us who
Appreciate the attention,
One month of the year
For our “honorable mention.”
A special recognition
Of some Black achievements,
And a few mild
A DIALOG OF MISLEADERS
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Black power!
Solidarity!
All power!
Man, we need talk about
‘DAT NIGGA.’
Yeah, his pen
got a blade for a point,
n’ he
keep cuttin’ mufuckers!
What’s YOUR point?
He s’posed to
… Read the restKevin Rashid Johnson is the Minister of Defense for the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party (RIBPP). He is someone that I’ve been honored to have known for over a decade. I’ve learned quite a lot from him over the years.
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From Amerika’s founding fathers
To its oil barons and robbers
Your heroes ain’t mines.
Fascists and deviants
Warmongers slave drivers
Pedophiles lynchers
Native genociders
Your heroes ain’t mines.
Those who claim fame
We don’t see the same
Ain’t nobody down
Like Big Momma,
Kept it G
Through all the drama.
She was there
When you were born,
Had words of wisdom
When you were scorned.
When they jaded you
She aided you,
Combed out your knots
Brushed
There’s a whole history
of bloody denial,
Of crimes and benefits
for which you must reconcile.
From slavery and genocide
to Jim Crow outrages,
Your imprint is all over
Amerika’s racist history pages.
The most heinous abuses
were at your
