Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.

I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context.