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Mansa Musa, also known as Charles Hopkins, is a 70-year-old social activist and former Black Panther. He was released from prison on December 5, 2019, after serving 48 years, nine months, 5 days, 16 hours, 10 minutes. He co-hosts the TRNN original show Rattling the Bars.

Mansa Musa delivers a lecture for the UMD College Park Young Democratic Socialists of America
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Former Black Panther Mansa Musa on how to fight Trump: ‘Get organized!’

by Mansa Musa April 7, 2025April 7, 2025

At a lecture for UMD College Park’s YDSA, the host of Rattling the Bars spoke about his 48 years behind bars, and how the political struggle has evolved over his half-century of experience.

Rattling the Bars Host Mansa Musa interviews Kareem Hasan outside the Maryland Penitentiary in Baltimore City, MD. Mansa and Kareem spent decades of incarceration in Maryland's prison system and were released under the landmark Unger decision. Kareem Hasan is the founder of the organization C.R.Y. Creating Responsible Youth and is currently advocating to pass the Second Look Act (HB 853).
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Maryland’s Second Look Act clears State House—is relief for longterm prisoners imminent?

by Mansa Musa March 24, 2025March 24, 2025
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Prison profiteering exploits whole communities, not just the incarcerated

by Mansa Musa March 10, 2025March 10, 2025
Lonnell Sligh, a formerly incarcerated activist, speaks with Mansa Musa of Rattling the Bars on his experience in prison and his views on reforming the system of forced prison labor
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Prison slavery makes millions for states like Maryland. What will it take to achieve change?

by Mansa Musa February 24, 2025February 24, 2025
Police clash with supporters of US President Donald Trump who breached security and entered the Capitol building in Washington D.C., United States on January 06, 2021. Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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‘MAGA for us, not for them’: The right’s selective outrage over prison conditions for Jan. 6 insurrectionists

by Mansa Musa January 6, 2025January 6, 2025
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Healing Justice: A Black Panther legacy

by Mansa Musa December 23, 2024December 23, 2024
Hunter Biden, the son President Joe Biden, is seen during an event to celebrate the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday, September 30, 2024. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
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‘Incredibly hypocritical’: Hunter Biden’s pardon and his father’s mass incarceration legacy

by Mansa Musa December 16, 2024January 6, 2025
Convicts at the Limestone Correctional facility are placed back onto the chain gang when they leave the prison grounds for their daily labor as road crews in July of 1995 outside of Huntsville, Alabama. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
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Alabama prisoners sued to stop forced labor—a court dismissed their case

by Mansa Musa December 9, 2024December 9, 2024
Albert Paul Fredericks Hernandez is confined in his cell at the Short-Term Restricted Housing Unit of California State Prison, Sacramento. Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
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New DC bill seeks to abolish solitary confinement

by Mansa Musa November 18, 2024January 9, 2025
A prisoner waits at the Bolivar County Correctional Facility to receive a Covid-19 vaccination administered by medical workers with Delta Health Center on April 28, 2021 in Cleveland, Mississippi. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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2 million incarcerated people could vote on Tuesday. But for who?

by Mansa Musa November 4, 2024November 4, 2024

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