Abolition Today

On this day, one day before the birthday of Frederick Douglass, Max and Yusuf are joined by ASNN leadership member Savannah Eldrige.

Savannah Eldrige is a registered nurse and founder of Be Frank 4 Justice. Formed to help ensure access to justice, after realizing obstacles while assisting her brother Frank appeal the egregious life sentence that he received under the outdated habitual offender statute. Today the org serves to support incarcerated individuals and their families through community engagement and education.

 In 2020, she formed the Coalition to Abolish Slavery-Texas and joined the Abolish Slavery National Network as Co-Director of State Operations. She is actively involved in various organizations and campaigns to improve outcomes for incarcerated individuals across the state of Texas.

As always, we'll be turning it up all the way with amazing musical mixes and audio clips. Then bringing the ancestors voices back to life for a new generation.

Max and Yusuf are joined by Curtis Davis. Author, abolitionist, and formerly incarcerated director of Decarcerate Louisiana.

Curtis is a founding member and Executive Director of Decarcerate Louisiana, and the End Plantation Prisons Project. He was instrumental in overturning unconstitutional Jim Crow juries in Louisiana. He is also a member of the Abolish Slavery National Network and introduced the LA abolition amendment.

Curtis's book "Slave State: Evidence of Apartheid in America" is available for purchase now.  Curtis Davis spent 25 years in Angola prison. Since leaving that literal slave plantation he has become a beacon of hope for those still left behind.

Of course we'll have news, updates, music, poetry, testimonies, and the voices of the ancestors reclaimed in our Bridging The Gap segment.

In this episode of Abolition Today we highlight legislative testimony in Nevada and Vermont.

It is our goal to do so more often for every state fighting in the halls of legislation to remove pro-slavery constitutional language.

The speakers channel the raw honest passion and determination of our abolitionist ancestors with words that will ring out across the annals of time. They are...

Life changing. Inspirational. Uplifting. Hopeful. Powerful.

These amazing testimonies today hold as true to current events as they did for Fredrick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Mother Tubman in their time.

They deserve to be heard and you deserve to hear them.

We examine the 13th amendment through court cases. Our research provides some shocking conclusions. Things you weren't supposed to know and weren't supposed to be looking for at all. But we looked and on Abolition Today we expose this forbidden knowledge.

This is a must hear episode. One which could be used in trials holding the US responsible for crimes against humanity which they knowingly and purposefully committed.

People keep asking if changing the constitution is symbolic. They also want to know what's next.

We're here to answer those questions clearly. You may not like the answers but you're gonna learn today.

Join Max and Yusuf as we bring you the mathematics. Dripping with music, poetry, news, views, and the voices of the ancestors.

We also have a special interview with a Rikers inmate courtesy of Tag Harmon from Root & Branch NY.

After 24 years, ACA3 co-author Samual Nathaniel Brown is finally released. We discuss his experiences and ask the question

"What is Freedom?"

ACA3 is the "Assembly Constitutional Amendment 3" which proposes to remove pro-slavery language allowing for involuntary servitude from the California state constitution.

Of course we'll have powerful music mixes, poetry, and the voices of the ancestors reclaimed with our Bridging The Gap segment.

We're back live with Season 3 Episode 1 of Abolition Today.

Join Max Parthas and Yusuf Hassan Sunday, January 2nd, for the Season 3 Premier of Abolition Today.

News on the slavery abolition movement, music, spoken word poetry, educational discource, special guests, and of course, we will continue to bring the words of the ancestors back to life for a new generation in our Bridging The Gap segment.

Everything you love about the program is back and better than ever.

Sincere Ignorance and Conscientious Stupidity

The most dangerous thing in the world

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

Tonight we directly address the pro-slavery anti-black arguments. The complete denial, the logical fallacies, the stereotypes and tropes. The arguments of the past and the present because they are one and the same.

Join Max and Yusuf as we break it all down to expose the insanity of the slaver class and their puppet minions.

Is it a lawless land? Has the constitution been so systemically violated that it's become the supreme joke of the land? Has our rights ever been respected or have they been denied generation after generation? Who violates? Who denies? Who defends? Did biden actually end all private prison contracts? What's going on in Alabama prison with Kinetic Justice? We're going to pow wow with some veteran national slavery abolitionists and answer these questions.

We hear from abolitionist OG's  Kinetik Justice, Scotty Reid, Otis Griffon, and more

We are joined by a special guest. Professor Joy James.  

The Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College.

Author of ;

Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; 

Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals; 

And, Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture.

Her edited books include: 

Warfare in the American Homeland; The New Abolitionists:

(Neo) Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings; 

Imprisoned Intellectuals; States of Confinement; 

The Black Feminist Reader (co-edited with TD Sharpley-Whiting);

and The Angela Y. Davis Reader.

James is completing a book on the prosecution of 20th-century interracial rape cases, tentatively titled “Memory, Shame & Rage.” She has contributed articles and book chapters to journals and anthologies addressing feminist and critical race theory, democracy, and social justice.

She is the recipient of grants, fellowships or awards from:

the Fletcher Foundation;

the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities;

the Rockefeller Foundation;

the Bellagio Fellowship;

the Aaron Diamond Foundation/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;

the Ford Foundation;

and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award.

And last but not least, Professor James is partnering with the Abolish Slavery National Network to help develop educational curriculum on post emancipation constitutional slavery.