free Huey!
a demand that sparked
a movement
the needle
we moved it
closer
to freedom
Huey P. we freed him
but afterward lost steam
which means
another deferred dream
but the vision
ain’t dead
instead
we gotta
revive what … Read the rest
Several things prison officials and my peers know about me is I’m not passive, I don’t frighten and I don’t back down.
I’ve been imprisoned for almost 35 years. Throughout that time I’ve physically warred and litigated against, and publicized … Read the rest
Walter Kissee is confined to a wheelchair. He can’t walk. His disability was caused by having a huge chunk of his leg ripped out by a prison attack dog on April 13, 2024 at Virginia’s River North Correctional (sic!) Center. … Read the rest
On Jan 17, 2025 I spoke with Phil Wilayto, the editor of the Virginia Defender newspaper. As many know, Phil supported and endorsed the call to shut down Virginia’s remote and notoriously racist and abusive super maximum security prisons, Red … Read the rest
When you combine an attention-seeking and drama-prone white woman who has a racist sense of entitlement over people of color with a hip shooting occupation that routinely captures, beats and lynches people of color, you have a distressing combination. Indeed … Read the rest
the wisest of us
are self taught
who escape the trap
of being caught
in the web of lies
fed in the formal schools
of our oppressors
trained with abnormal rules
deformed
and used
for generations
as tools
of our … Read the rest
Let me paint a picture for you. In this case art doesn’t merely imitate reality, it captures it.
In Va, prisoners are paid pennies per hour to perform labor that keeps its prisons operating which … Read the rest
Someone once told Huey P. Newton
you are what you eat
Cuz he called cops pigs
but admitted he ate pig feet
Huey responded to the critic
but you call yourself a man
So doesn’t that means my brother
that … Read the rest
We endure torture death
and suffering
while you compete for clout
and fame
Advocates helpers
good talkers bad walkers
ventriloquists who speak
in our name
Which one of you
spoke to us
walked a yard in our shoes
Asked us … Read the rest
behold the silent noise
cries with no voice
generations of shattered lives
discarded like broken toys
a too early demise
lost and tortured souls
ghostly lullabies
legacies no one knows
unknown tomorrows
tossed in ships’ holds
young and old
suffered … Read the rest