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Hosted by Max Parthas and Yusuf Hassan, Abolition today is a weekly online radio program with specific focus on modern slavery as it is practiced through the 13th amendment of the US constitution and by private for-profit prisons worldwide. Airs live Sundays 7PM EST. 4PM PST and 5 Central. abolitiontoday.org

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The knowledge and information. The Abolitionist Music/Poetry. The Voices of the ancestors reclaimed. The news, views, and special guests. The compelling narratives and powerful commentary. The 1st hand testimony from activists at... more
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Max Parthas & Tribal Raine bring in 2021 and remember 2020 with the incredible music and poetry aired during season 1 of Abolition Today. Join Max & Yusuf for season 2 of Abolition Today beginning January 3rd!
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?The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land... more
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We (nationwide abolitionists groups) made history over and over again this election season. Abolishing constitutional slavery in 2 states (Nebraska & Utah), returning voting rights to the formerly incarcerated in California, opening up the... more
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"They would not call it slavery, but some other name. Slavery has been fruitful in giving herself names ... and it will call itself by yet another name; and you and I and all of us had better wait and see what new form this old monster... more
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Max and Yusuf are away preparing for Season 2. This week we revisit some tracks from Episodes 20 through Episode 28 that framed our discussions during those episodes. Season 2 returns on Sunday, January 3rd.
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??Thus far I had outwitted him, and I triumphed over it. Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants.?? Harriet... more
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While Max and Yusuf are away preparing for Season 2, we revisit the intro tracks from the premiere broadcast up until Episode 19. Season 2 returns on Sunday, January 3rd.
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I consider involuntary slavery a never-failing fountain of the grossest immorality, and one of the deepest sources of human misery; it hangs like the mantle of night over our republic, and shrouds its rising glories. I sincerely pity the man who... more
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While we are on break between seasons we'll replay all 19 segments of Ossie Reads Fredrick along with the amazing music it was paired with. Tonight is part two of 2 featuring the incredible "Final Word" by Fredrick Douglass. Hear his... more
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