David A. Love, JD

The current issue is always free to everyone [The following are remarks made at a December 4, 2007 press conference held in Philadelphia by The International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal (ICFFMAJ), and Journalists for Mumia. The purpose of the press conference was to discuss newly discovered crime scene photos in the Mumia…

(Note: The following commentary was originally written for the Progressive Media Project) For millions of poor children, failed by their families, the child welfare system and the juvenile justice system, a life of prison awaits them. Prison is the only universally guaranteed program for children in America, the study notes, as America increasingly criminalizes its…

The raw power grab in Pakistan, in which General Pervez Musharraf has imposed a state of emergency, suspended the Supreme Court and the provincial courts, and silenced private-owned media, tells us far more about the United States than Pakistan. Pakistani citizens are paying the price for the misguided policies of Washington decision makers. The U.S.…

The current issue is always free to everyone When Nobel Prize laureate James Watson, the founder of DNA, announced that Black people are genetically inferior, I was angered, though not necessarily surprised. And I believe that a substantial number of Americans agree with him. Watson, upon his sudden retirement, has provided a public service by…

The current issue is always free to everyone On Sunday, October 21, 2007, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson and local community groups teamed up to stem the tide of gun violence and the city’s ballooning murder rate, and to take control of the streets. Thousands of men gathered at Temple University’s Liacouras Center in an…

The current issue is always free to everyone A group of journalists is determined to seek a fair retrial of death row prisoner, noted journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, and they point to evidence they say provides further proof of his innocence: photos from the crime scene that the jury never had the…

The current issue is always free to everyone The nationwide problem of prison overcrowding provides a perfect opportunity for society to examine real prison reform. Exorbitant prison spending threatens to cripple state budgets, as lawmakers in many parts of the country allocate more funding to lock up their citizens than to educate them and provide…