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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...

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 ac...

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 Po...

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 Ca...

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...

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 inspir...

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 peop...

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 G...

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 t...

October 23, 2025 by California Prison Focus...

October 16, 2025 by California Prison Focus...

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...

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, ...

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 gra...

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...

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 th...

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 A...

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 Naj...

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, Brot...

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 ...

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 embo...

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 embo...

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 throu...

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 pr...

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 ...

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 ...

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 spir...

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 freque...

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 ...

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 vi...

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 ...

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 experien...

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 th...

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 conve...

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. Th...

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 int...

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 spee...

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...

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 af...

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,...

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 ...

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 Libe...

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, PE...

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....

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 in...

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 neg...

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 cap...

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...