Episodes
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January 22, 2026
January 22, 2026 by California Prison Focus
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January 15, 2026
January 15, 2026 by California Prison Focus
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January 8, 2026
We pay tribute to Our New Afrikan Comrade and Brotha Kala Sangu Kambon, who joined the Ancestors January 3, 2026. We maintain a continuum of life, liberation and self-determination through remembrance, acknowledgment and honor. Rest in Power Beloved Comrade. You live on in Us! Ubuntu! (i am We)...
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January 1, 2026
We start the new year going deep into the necessity to Know Thyself as a basis for revolutionary action. Understanding that the struggle starts from within and informs all the decisions we make and actions we take. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop Liberate Our Elders All Power to the People! Free Africa!...
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December 18, 2025
This week, We take time to remember why we do what we do here on Prison Focus Radio. We ground down into the importance of illuminating the voices, experience and wisdom of California’s New Afrikan Political Prisoners, current, former and ancestral. We Remember as resistance to the state’s…
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December 11, 2025
This week we take you on a ride making three stops to hear the voices of the press conference spotlighting the civil suit brought by New Afrikan Artivist Minister King against CDCr and the state of California for violating his First Amendment rights and he’s challenging the merits of Penal Code...
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December 4, 2025
We hear Part 2 the report back from Brotha Di’Ke about the Come in Unity event and what transpired between inside organizers and creators and the prison officials- more shenanigans! And we’ll hear how Brotha Di’Ke is in full Kan’t stop, Won’t stop mode. You don’t want to miss this one! Liberate…
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November 20, 2025
Today we hear Part 1 of New Afrikan Brotha Di’Ke’s transformation from criminal thinking to revolutionary action. Sixteen years in on a 40 to life sentence, this young Brotha is a powerhouse of inspiration, motivation and purpose… His story is both a reflection and a manifestation of the recent...
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November 13, 2025
We continue to tell our New Afrikan Ourstory from the streets of Oakland, from the calling of the names of our ancestors and bringing her forward to inspire the moment into remembrance of all our people have endured and from which we build our resilience and Unity. We continue to read “Assata, an...
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November 6, 2025
We continue to hear the voices of local Oaklanders benefitting from the weekly food giveaway organized by a powerful collaboration of local, Black-lead organizations, including Formerly Incarcerated Giving Back founded By Richard “Razor” Johnson, who spent 26 years in captivity and subjected to...
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October 30, 2025
We continue to acknowledge and highlight the powerful work our New Afrikan brothas are doing to love up on the people with the voices of the People. After spending decades in captivity and subjected to decades of solitary confinement by the state in order to break their revolutionary minds…
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October 23, 2025
October 23, 2025 by California Prison Focus
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October 16, 2025
October 16, 2025 by California Prison Focus
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October 9, 2025
This week we spend much of the hour with our Sis Queen Makini, who survives the passing of her husband, Yafeu Iyapo who after receiving a date to come home after 50 years of captivity dies in a prison hospital after an unsuccessful, questionable brain surgery. We get into the ramifications of...
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Octobber 2, 2025
REST IN POWER BELOVED ASSATA SHAKUR This week we are in conversation with Sis Jay Rene, Black Enthusiast, community journalist and Co-founder of Prison Riot Radio along with her husband Kwame Teague, unjustly held captive going on 32 years. We’ll get an update on his case and how we can support…...
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September 25, 2025
This week we talk about the case of Abdul Olugbala Shakur, New Afrikan Revolutionary, scholar, author and Political Prisoner held captive almost 50 years. The parole board is trying to rescind his grant of parole by subjecting him to a rescission hearing. Here’s what you can do: Listen to Prison...
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September 18, 2025
We continue our view into the unjust and deadly tactics of the California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation with the latest on New Afrikan Political Prisoner, Brotha LP’s Racial Justice Act case; and New Afrikan Political Prisoner Brotha Balagoon’s liberation campaign. As long as we…
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September 11, 2025
New Afrikan Political Prisoner, Brotha LP, speaks about his Racial Justice Act case. We’ll see in real time what our people inside are up against as they fight for their freedom. Let’s make certain they don’t have to do it alone – get educated! be inspired! Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the...
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August 28, 2025
Black August greetings! We continue with Reclaiming the Truth about Black August Resistance and beyond. Black August is essential to our continued struggle for liberation, self-determination and New Afrikan community empowerment. The struggle relies on our Unity and informs the reason for the…
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August 21, 2025
Black August greetings! During this episode on Black August FLEA Day 21 commemorating George Jackson with a 24-hour fast, and reclaiming the truth about Black August, we hear the 2012 interview by Naji Mujahid with Kumasi, the official historian of the Black August Organizing Committee, speaking...
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August 14, 2025
As promised, and with much gratitude, we bring back voices in connection with our African brothers and sisters. Pastor and Maasai James responded to the greetings/introductions from Brotha Sangu, Brotha Zah, Brotha Mutawally, Brotha Gha’is and Brotha Baridi, and we hear sounds from his Sunday...
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August 7, 2025
It’s Black August 2025! And We are two FLEA days into commemorating its 46th year. Last year We laid down some powerful work to educate the public, tell the truth and share the tenets and practice of Black August which serve to uplift and empower the People toward liberation and…
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July 31, 2025
In keeping with the telling of the New Afrikan Ourstory 365, over the next few weeks you will have the privilege of bearing witness to a tribute to our beloved New Afrikan Brotha Yafeu Iyapo, the embodiment of revolutionary love who transitioned to the ancestors June 24, 2025, Rest in Power,...
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July 24, 2025
In keeping with the telling of the New Afrikan Ourstory 365, over the next few weeks you will have the privilege of bearing witness to a tribute to our beloved New Afrikan Brotha Yafeu Iyapo, the embodiment of revolutionary love who transitioned to the ancestors June 24, 2025, Rest in Power,...
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July 17, 2025
We will be discussing medical abuse, medical apartheid and how the prison industrial slave complex is designed to keep Us unfree for exploitation and our ultimate demise. The telling of Ourstory through a New Afrikan lens speaks truth to the crimes against our humanity. We will tell it loud…
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July 10, 2025
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...
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May 1, 2025
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…
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June 5, 2025
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...
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June 12, 2025
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…
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May 29, 2025
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...
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May 8, 2025
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…
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April 24, 2025
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…
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April 17, 2025
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...
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April 10, 2025
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...
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April 3, 2025
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...
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March 27, 2025
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”...
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March 20, 2025
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…
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March 13, 2025
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…
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March 6, 2025
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…
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February 27, 2025
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...
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February 20, 2025
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...
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February 6, 2025
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…
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January 30, 2025
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...
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January 23, 2025
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...
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January 16, 2025
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...
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December 26, 2024
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…
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December 19, 2024
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…
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December 12, 2024
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...
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January 9, 2025
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...
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January 2, 2025
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…
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