Big D has broken some big stories in his career, including ward-winning exposures of systemic racism within corporate giants GM and Texaco. Big D said. I see why some people want to keep him quiet. Mumia's third book from Death Row is now out. The penetrating perspectives of Mumia's essays illuminate the dark recesses of accepted notions with awareness expanding insights.
Accepted notion is that justice prevails in America's court system.
Perverting justice to achieve political objectives marks both authoritarian regimes and the modus operandi in America's court system. Beyond philosophical and polemical, these essays are poignantly personal. The title of Mumia's new book is a twist on an ugly incident that happened to him in 1994. This incident exposes how the real politic realities of America mimic the repressive regimes regularly reviled by American politicians and media pundits. Yet hours before the scheduled airing of the first audio commentary, NPR pulled the plug, canceling Mumia's commentary series.