Prison Focus Radio

Please join us as We revisit the discussion on parole and why We need a Community Release Board! This genocidal kangaroo kourt called the Board of Parole Hearings perpetuates ongoing slavery in our prison, and thus it is a crime against humanity, a tool of whyte false supremacy that keeps our People unfree! REBL… Resist! Educate! Build! Love! Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate...

Listen up, Listen in! We continue telling our New Afrikan Ourstory 365 as we make a pivot from our conversation about some of the negative and dehumanizing music/lyrics and images targeting our young Afrikans – due to some of the original participants of that conversation unable to join us – to an organic unfolding conversation about some of the current events of interest. The privilege of being i...

The push to tell the New Afrikan Ourstory 365 continues as we reinvigorate the discussion on the legislative move to abolish slavery. Brotha Carl Marion, currently held captive at Corcoran SATF, will join us once again to discuss this year’s attempt to submit the ACA 6 End Slavery in California bill to the voters for the 2026 legislative cycle, and its challenges and aspirations. There is much wor...

As history is unfolding before our eyes, as it is being erased and as it is re-emerging, we must remember those who have come before, who paved the way and strengthened us with the mind, body and spirit tools necessary to meet this moment. We pay tribute to Revolutionary giant, David Johnson of the San Quentin 6, this week and forward as we practice sankofa honoring and re-membering our Ancestors,...

We continue our conversation regarding El Hajj Malik El Shabazz aka Malcolm X and the impact and inspiration his legacy brings, even after 60 years after his assassination. We are joined by our frequent contributor, Brotha Scorpion who brings a vibrant and articulate analysis and younger generational perspective – even as he endures an unjust triple-life, plus 88 years sentence. Kan’t stop, Won’t...

Listen up, listen in! We’re back from the historic New Afrikan Unity Summit, that happened in Atlanta, Georgia on May 3, 2025 at the Omenala Griot Afrocentric Teaching Museum. Prison Focus Radio had the honor of bringing back the voices from the Unity Summit. Amongst the voices you’ll hear, you’ll hear the introductory statement from the Black August Organizing Committee setting the tone and purpo...

Listen up, Listen in as we continue New Afrikan Ourstory 365 with the ongoing conversation about the negative images, language and commentary targeting our young, New Afrikan/Black minds and psyche via the airwaves and various screens. New Afrikan Elder former Political Prisoner, Brotha Sangu will co-host and we’ll be joined by current New Afrikan Political Prisoners, Brotha LP and Brotha Scorpion...

We embark upon a conversation about the some of the negative, degrading, dehumanizing – and ultimately dangerous – language and images plaguing our airwaves and screens targeting the vulnerable minds of our Black children. Joining us for this topic will be Cohost Elder Brotha Sangu, home after 52 years; Brotha Scorpion held captive in Solano on a triple-life sentence; Elder Brotha LP at CMF, held...

We still gotta talk about slavery in our prisons, y’all! People, planet and all sentient beings before profits!! Be a part of listening to and sharing in conscious reciprocity with our people experiencing crimes against their humanity in California prisons – slavery is legal and still being practiced on our watch and on our dollar. Sista Porshe Taylor of Prison: From the Inside Out and Brotha Carl...

We continue New Afrikan Ourstory 365 by highlighting the undaunted human spirit continuing to rise. Be inspired and and empowered by the revolutionary love work being done in Unity on both sides of the plantation – We ain’t free ‘til We all free! We’re in conversation with Brotha William Curl (Evol), serving an LWOP sentence, 32 years in since he was 18 years old; and Fati Yero (co-hosting), two y...

New Afrikan Ourstory 365 continues by joining in the collective energy of Women’s Herstory Month to put an intentional and loving spotlight on our New Afrikan Sistas. We do this together. So tune into the conversation with our Beloved Sis, Queen Makini as she shares some herstory of her part in the beautiful struggle over decades in Unity with the Brothas, the California New Afrikan Political Pris...

New Afrikan Ourstory 365 continues…Listen up and listen in! In this episode of Prison Focus Radio, we are in conversation with our might Sis, Porshe Taylor, founder of Prison: From the Inside Out. This is another beautiful opportunity to tap into the revolutionary love in action to bring our People home, healthy in mind and spirit, and attend to the medical challenges they face after long term cap...

New Afrikan Ourstory 365 continues our lifting up of our New Afrikan Sistas during Women’s Herstory Month and forever forward. Listen up and listen in to be inspired and empowered! We’ll be in conversation with formerly captive community member, Sis Succatti Shaw “making the world a better place” and Co-host Brotha Sangu, former Political Prisoner home after 52 years, speaks with formerly incarcer...

First, we’ll go international to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to hear the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley address the African Union Summit on Feb. 15, 2025. Then we’ll hear commentary on the speech from Brotha Sangu and Brotha Sanni, and conclude – in the spirit of Unity – with the Brothas Sangu, Sanni and Zaharibu sharing their declarations of love to our New Afrikan Sistas. These declarations...

Final week of Black History Month/New Afrikan History 365! Though this is the last week of Black History Month, New Afrikan History is 365. New Afrikan History is Black History, but most people have no idea who or what a New Afrikan is nor the very important history of the New Afrikan Nation and Independence Movement. Listen up and listen in as Brotha Sangu and Brotha Sanni, former and current Pol...

Black History Month/New Afrikan History 365! Leonard Peltier is FREE! We continue our conversation on what it means to be a New Afrikan with Brotha Gha’is Muntaqim, home after 40+ years, although after all is said and done he’s survived the ravages of genocidal captivity in CDCr for 60 years, and comes home with 4-stage cancer among other ailments, and Kan’t stop, Won’t stop, Will not be stopped f...

First week of “Black” History Month. We’ll be commemorating through the lens and narrative of New Afrikan History 365, talking about Carter G. Woodson, father of Black History Week and the importance, and intention, of his seminal book, “The Mis-education of the Negro.” We will also hear from Prime Minister Balagoon, speaking on the Honorable Marcus Garvey, Pan African, considered the Father of th...

This week we preempt the roundtable and hear an essay on Prop 36 and its implications by Brotha Balagoon Kambon Muhammad, 40 years enslaved, 16 spent in solitary confinement and who is waiting to get his medical release date; and we hear an excerpt of a conversation in October of 2024 with Brotha Zah, serving LWOP, life without parole, still enslaved after 40 years, and surviving 28 years in solit...

This week’s roundtable will include New Afrikan Brothas Sangu, Sanni and Scorpion speaking on the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and how his radical legacy informs our work forward in the Black Liberation Struggle. Our conversation is guided by various Dr. King quotes chosen by each of our guests. Prison Focus Radio centers the voices, stories and commentary of our People in California experienc...

This week January 16, 2025 This week we convene with New Afrikan Brothas Scorpion and Political Prisoner Mutawally, both with life sentences. They will speak on the new program they’re developing, PEP (Personalizing Rehabilitation Empowerment) rooted in the wisdom and work from Elder Freedom Fighters and Revolutionaries, but pulled forward with the fresh energy and intelligence of the current mome...

The final episode of Prison Focus Radio for 2024 will be spent in conversation with Alesha Monteiro, powerful activist, mother and wife to Anthony Monteiro, unjustly held due to unjust CDCr practices. Alesha will be speaking primarily on “circumventing restitution” the current scheme being leashed upon our people inside to keep them criminalized and unfree. We won’t let up on exposing the terror a...

We hear directly from the People behind enemy lines, and their loved ones, who are experiencing legal slavery – thereby crimes against their humanity and slow genocide. This week. We hear the third installment of “Zero Accountability” from Brotha Balagoon ( 40 years legally enslaved), exposing the medical abuse, neglect and misconduct by staff at California Health Care Facility, and what we can do...

During this season of giving, this is a beautiful opportunity to share some of your precious time with three courageous women speaking on behalf of their loved ones about medical abuse and medical neglect. They continue to expose the truth about California prison conditions, and we will end with how we can support – actions that are useful in any area you may want to make your voice heard in solid...

We continue our roundtable discussions with New Afrikan former and current Political Prisoners, Brothas Sangu, Sanni and Ghais. Together these New Afrikan men represent close to a hundred years of captivity in California’s penal plantations and still count themselves among the unbroken. We will center our conversation around the impending implications of the passing of Proposition 36 in the 2024 e...

It’s a new year, and also another day. But if we allow, let’s make space for deep breaths, deep reflection and deep connection – we gotta got each other and hold tight… This week we “round table” with New Afrikan Brothas Sangu, Sanni and Faruk, formerly and currently experiencing legal slavery and racial injustice. Covering various topics including the, yet again, filmed murder of a Black Man, Rob...