New Abolitionists Radio Weekly 7/27

Tune in for two hours of news and commentary concerning 21st Century Slavery & Human Trafficking.

oday is July 27th 2016

We’ll go through this week’s collection of stories articles and events with an abolitionist perspective. Again, I’m not going to give a long description of what’s to come tonight. If you are tuned in here now you already know we are at one of the most precarious and perilous times in American history. A time when change can become reality or be swept aside in lunacy. Let’s just get into it.

• Our Rider of the 21st Century Underground Railroad is Perry Cobb and Darby Tillis who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the 1977 murder and armed robbery of the owner and an employee of a hotdog stand on the north side of Chicago Fourteen years later, as a result of petitions brought by the MacArthur Justice Center and the Center on Wrongful Convictions, Governor George Ryan granted Cobb and Tillis pardons based on actual innocence.

• Our abolitionist in profile is William Howard Day (October 16, 1825 – December 3, 1900)

Expect all of that and more tonight on New Abolitionists Radio

New Abolitionists Radio Weekly 7/13

Tune in for two hours of news and commentary concerning 21st Century Slavery & Human Trafficking.

Today is July 13th 2016

We’ll go through this week’s collection of stories articles and events with an abolitionist perspective. I’m not going to give a long description of what’s to come tonight. If you are tuned in here now you already know we are at one of the most precarious and perilous times in American history. Let’s just get into it.

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• Our Rider of the 21st Century Underground Railroad is Davontae Sanford who spent more than eight years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

• Our abolitionist in profile is The Unknown and Anonymous Abolitionist as represented in an 1834 speech given by an anonymous speaker at the Female Minervian Association on the moral and social improvement of freed slaves, encouraging them to assist those who are still enslaved. Published in the Liberator and preserved in the Black Abolitionist Archives.

Expect all of that and more tonight on New Abolitionists Radio

New Abolitionists Radio Weekly 7/6/2016

The murder of Alton Sterling, the request by Dillan Roofs attorneys to drop all charges, The 99th “officer of the year” sentenced to 30 years for working with a gun cartel, the national prison labor strike, the attempt by the DOJ to reduce prison numbers instead of prisoners and so much more.
We’ll go through this week’s collection of stories articles and events with an abolitionist perspective.

• Our Rider of the 21st Century Underground Railroad is 43-year-old William Richards who was released from prison on June 21, 2016 and on June 28, 2016, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office dismissed the charge. He spent 20 years in prison as an innocent man.

• Our abolitionist in profile is Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802-1837) a native of Albion, Maine, was murdered in Alton, Illinois by a pro-slavery mob on November 7, 1837 while defending his right to promote the abolition of slavery in the United States.

Expect all of that and more tonight on New Abolitionists Radio