Prison Focus Radio

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 people have endured and from which we build our resilience and Unity. We continue to read “Assata, an autobiography,” we hear commentary and gain knowledge about Sandra “Red” Pratt, more than the wife of Geronomo Ji Jaga Pratt, and Brotha Balagoon shares his ode to Assata piece. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 Giving Back founded By Richard “Razor” Johnson, who spent 26 years in captivity and subjected to years of solitary confinement meant to break his revolutionary spirit because of his political activities. We pay special tribute to Kevin Bonewell who recently joined the ancestors, by Brotha Balagoon who reminds us of the significance and foundation set by this New Afrikan freedom fighter. We also take note of multiple, ongoing news and resources regarding New Afrikan/Black folk here and throughout the diaspora to support, utilize and/or take action on. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 to decades of solitary confinement by the state in order to break their revolutionary minds, spirits and Unity, they’ve come home and together with other local orgs in Oakland to give back to the People – out of love and redemption, and during a wake up call to how desperately we need each other and to remember our ancestral way of reciprocity. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 hospital after an unsuccessful, questionable brain surgery. We get into the ramifications of long-term imprisonment, decades of solitary confinement and the legacy Yafeu leaves behind as part of the Black Liberation Struggle in California’s prisons. Please consider helping our Sista retrieve her late husband’s property from CDCr by visiting the GoFundMe page Yafeu Iyapo… *We are in our Fall Fund Drive! Please donate to your independent, listener supported radio station, KPOO! Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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, unjustly held captive going on 32 years. We’ll get an update on his case and how we can support… *We are in our Fall Fund Drive! Please donate to your independent, listener supported radio station, KPOO! Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 grant of parole by subjecting him to a rescission hearing. Here’s what you can do: Listen to Prison Focus Radio Write letters: For a template and SASE email: buildtheaim.a13@gmail.com Call the gov: 916-445-2841 demand the board stands by the original grant Call the BPH: 916-445-4072 demand they follow the law, not politics Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 case; and New Afrikan Political Prisoner Brotha Balagoon’s liberation campaign. As long as we turn a blind eye, a deaf ear or a silent voice to the crimes against the humanity of the people in prison deemed slaves of the state, we are complicit in these crimes and in our own oppression. Stand up for humanity. Be heard. Be educated. Be inspired to act. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 they don’t have to do it alone – get educated! be inspired! Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 Afrikan community empowerment. The struggle relies on our Unity and informs the reason for the Black August Breaking of the Fast on the 31st. This episode builds the narrative to this final phase of the month-long practice, while paving the way for the continued practice throughout the year. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 Naji Mujahid with Kumasi, the official historian of the Black August Organizing Committee, speaking about the origins of the California Prison Movement and the why and meaning behind Black August. This is powerful and crucial truth-telling essential and relevant to the ongoing struggle for our Liberation, and our Humanity. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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, Brotha Zah, Brotha Mutawally, Brotha Gha’is and Brotha Baridi, and we hear sounds from his Sunday service in the village. Two books were gifted to him: “Indictment of the State and its Prison Industrial Slave Complex,” by Joka Heshima Jinsai and “Born Without Justice, the life story of a Compton street soldier,” by Louis Powell Jr.- both books can be found on Amazon. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 Black August which serve to uplift and empower the People toward liberation and self-determination. This work endures and seeks to preserve its integrity, and remains as crucial as ever. (We’ll hear excerpts from last year’s Prison Focus airing as nube is in Africa.). We will continue to pay tribute to our beloved New Afrikan Brotha Yafeu Iyapo, the embodiment of revolutionary love who transitioned to the ancestors June 24, 2025, Rest in Power, Brotha. We will bear witness to the expression of the seven principles of Ma’at: Truth, Justice, Harmony, Balance, Order and propriety and the powerful show of Unity and Love we have for one another, but that is so often vilified, manipulated, criminalized and distorted. This tribute, this spiritual acknowledgment and love up, is manifest through the Ministry of Never Forget, Never Again, Never Alone, created in the loving partnership between Queen Makini Iyapo, surviving on this earthly plane, and her husband, Yafeu Iyapo, and carries forward his legacy. Husband, son, brother, uncle, comrade, friend, mentor, fighter, lover of life and unapologetic New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist Yafeu Iyapo lives on in us and with us. Through story and song we maintain our connection with you beloved Ya, One Love. These current tributes come from: Brotha Gha’is, Brotha Mutope, Brotha Geno and Brotha Samaki. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 embodiment of revolutionary love who transitioned to the ancestors June 24, 2025, Rest in Power, Brotha. We will bear witness to the expression of the seven principles of Ma’at: Truth, Justice, Harmony, Balance, Order and propriety and the powerful show of Unity and Love we have for one another, but that is so often vilified, manipulated, criminalized and distorted. This tribute, this spiritual acknowledgment and love up, is manifest through the Ministry of Never Forget, Never Again, Never Alone, created in the loving partnership between Queen Makini Iyapo, surviving on this earthly plane, and her husband, Yafeu Iyapo, and carries forward his legacy. Husband, son, brother, uncle, comrade, friend, mentor, fighter, lover of life and unapologetic New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist Yafeu Iyapo lives on in us and with us. Through story and song we maintain our connection with you beloved Ya, One Love. These next tributes come from, Brotha Baridi, Brotha Abasi, Brotha Balagoon, Brotha Razor, Pastors Marie and Randy Levin, Brotha Mutawally and Brotha Heshima. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 embodiment of revolutionary love who transitioned to the ancestors June 24, 2025, Rest in Power, Brotha. We will bear witness to the expression of the seven principles of Ma’at: Truth, Justice, Harmony, Balance, Order and propriety and the powerful show of Unity and Love we have for one another, but that is so often vilified, manipulated, criminalized and distorted. This tribute, this spiritual acknowledgment and love up, is manifest through the Ministry of Never Forget, Never Again, Never Alone, created in the loving partnership between Queen Makini Iyapo, surviving on this earthly plane, and her husband, Yafeu Iyapo, and carries forward his legacy. Husband, son, brother, uncle, comrade, friend, mentor, fighter, lover of life and unapologetic New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist Yafeu Iyapo lives on in us and with us. Through story and song we maintain our connection with you beloved Ya, One Love. These first tributes come from Brotha Dadisi, Brotha Sangu, Brotha Ifoma, Brotha Kubwa, Brotha Hodari, Brotha Hazim, Sista Nikisha, Brotha Zaharibu, Brotha LP and Brotha Fati. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 through a New Afrikan lens speaks truth to the crimes against our humanity. We will tell it loud, proud and unbowed. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 prison, and thus it is a crime against humanity, a tool of whyte false supremacy that keeps our People unfree! REBL… Resist! Educate! Build! Love! Kan’t stop, Won’t stop All Power to the People Liberate Our Elders Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 Afrikans – due to some of the original participants of that conversation unable to join us – to an organic unfolding conversation about some of the current events of interest. The privilege of being in conversation with and hearing from the New Afrikan Elder Political Prisoners who survived one of most horrific forms of domestic torture – decades of solitary confinement (extreme sensory deprivation) meant to break them – cannot be overstated. They bring to us a body of knowledge, political analysis, social commentary and perspective, unique and unmatched in its scope, its depth and its simple humanness. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop Liberate Our Elders All Power to the People Free Africa! Free Palestine!

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 join us once again to discuss this year’s attempt to submit the ACA 6 End Slavery in California bill to the voters for the 2026 legislative cycle, and its challenges and aspirations. There is much work to do as you will hear in this episode, but we hope it will inspire you to get on board with us to build awareness about the affects of slavery on all our lives and the more than urgent need to abolish it. Kan’t stop, Won’t stop Liberate Our Elders All Power to the People Free Africa! Free Palestine!