We spend the hour with Part 2 of our Tribute to Paul Redd

June 30, 2022

This week we hear about Black Liberation Struggle personal history from Brother Malik (Leroy Bruce Thompson). We also continue with the 2002 interview with Political Prisoner Veronza Bowers Jr.

June 8, 2023

This week we hear the voices of Love, Wisdom and Fire from our Elder New Afrikan Political Prisoners about why we are and continue the struggle to be our own liberators. PP Michael Zaharibu Dorrough; PP Joka Heshima Jinsai; PP Minister Balagoon; PP Mwalimu Shakur; PP Baridi Williamson; PP Kevin Cooper.

August 17, 2023

This week we hear from Mwalimu Shakur, Hunger Striker on his coming home this year in December; Nube speaks with Demetrius Dixon, 30 years on CDCr’s plantations, shares his expertise on prison politics, psychology and conditions; we hear an excerpt of Abolition Today UnCivil War, airs live every Sunday 4pm PST at abolitiontoday.org; finally we end with an article by Maya Miller about a guard’s sexual abuse of a child, unaccounted for by CDCr.

October 5, 2023

“Only revolutionary love can save us now.” Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness.
Uplift your humanity! Be informed about how our children - and families- are suffering the inhumane, genocidal sentence of LWOP, life without the possibility of parole…when you’re informed and honest, you can act in revolutionary love.

March 21, 2024

Juneteenth, but we still ain't free!
“Abolish the prison industrial complex and end legal slavery” Part two, By Prime Minister Balagoon.
We also hear Part 1 of Nube’s interview with Virginia Political Prisoner, Kevin Rashid Johnson, recently coming off a 71-day hunger strike.
**More Gems**
We hear New Afrikan Political Prisoner Brotha LP give answers to the first three follow-up questions to last month's interview.
All power to the People! Free Em All, Kan’t stop, Won’t stop

June 20, 2024

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. Alesha will be speaking primarily on “circumventing restitution” the current scheme being leashed upon our people inside to keep them criminalized and unfree.
We won’t let up on exposing the terror and genocide plaguing our people in prisons throughout amerikkka inc., but especially in California.
Sending much gratitude to all our loyal, new and yet to be listeners for sharing your precious time with us here at Prison Focus Radio – you keep the spark of hope alive.

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop
Free Em All
Liberate Our Elders
All Power to the People!
Free Palestine!

December 26, 2024

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 his medical release date; and we hear an excerpt of a conversation in October of 2024 with Brotha Zah, serving LWOP, life without parole, still enslaved after 40 years, and surviving 28 years in solitary confinement in both Pelican Bay and Corcoran state prisons, speaking on the ramped up white supremicist action of putting Black people back in their place, and what’s going on in the background regarding Prop 36 that we should be aware of (should it pass).

We do ourselves a disservice when we don’t engage with  our community members experiencing penal slavery. That is why Prison Focus Radio centers the voices, stories and commentary of our People in California experiencing penal slavery, a crime against humanity.
We intentionally and purposefully highlight New Afrikan California former and current Political Prisoners who organized the Historic California Hunger Strikes, authored the Agreement to End Hostilities, developed Black August Memorial/Black August Resistance and survived decades of torture in solitary confinement in Pelican Bay and Corcoran state prisons euphemistically called “security housing units” (SHUs), meant to break the revolutionary mind.

We will not let up on exposing the terror and genocide plaguing our People in prisons throughout amerikkka inc., nor the powerful show of revolutionary love and unity to resist it.

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop
All Power to the People
Liberate Our Elders
Free Em All!
Free Palestine!

January 30, 2025

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 into the conversation with our Beloved Sis, Queen Makini as she shares some herstory of her part in the beautiful struggle over decades in Unity with the Brothas, the California New Afrikan Political Prisoners.

This is the first in an ongoing series…

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop
All Power to the People
Liberate Our Elders
Free Em All!
Free Palestine!

March 13, 2025

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 of our Black children.

Joining us for this topic will be Cohost Elder Brotha Sangu, home after 52 years; Brotha Scorpion held captive in Solano on a triple-life sentence; Elder Brotha LP at CMF, held captive over 38 years; Elder Brotha Zaharibu at SATF, held captive over 40 years.

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop
All Power to the People
Liberate Our Elders
Free Em All!
Free Africa! Free Palestine!

April 17, 2025

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!

July 10, 2025

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!

July 31, 2025

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!

August 7, 2025

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!

August 14, 2025

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!

August 21, 2025

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!


August 28, 2025

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!

September 11, 2025

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!

September 18, 2025

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!

September 25, 2025

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!

Octobber 2, 2025

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!

October 9, 2025

October 16, 2025

October 23, 2025

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 30, 2025

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!

November 6, 2025

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!

November 13, 2025

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 inspiration, motivation and purpose…
His story is both a reflection and a manifestation of the recent historical activities of our New Afrikan Freedom Fighters and Political Prisoners.
Let’s get them home!
Liberate our Elders!
Kan’t stop, Won’t stop!

November 20, 2025

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 Brotha Di’Ke is in full Kan’t stop, Won’t stop mode. You don’t want to miss this one!

Liberate Our Elders!
Kan’t stop, Won’t stop
All Power to the People!
Free Africa! Free Palestine!

December 4, 2025

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 California for violating his First Amendment rights and he’s challenging the merits of Penal Code 4571; next we’ll hear an excerpt of a conversation between New Afrikan Political Prisoner Brotha LP and Educator Activist Ida McCray revealing a “master class” in the development of a traitor by Brotha LP; and lastly we’ll hear an excerpt of a conversation with Queen Makini Iyapo on her journey to healing from the loss of her husband Yafeu Iyapo who died in an outside prison hospital after 50 years of captivity.

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop
All Power to the People
Liberate Our Elders
Free Africa! Free Palestine!

December 11, 2025

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 Political Prisoners, current, former and ancestral. We Remember as resistance to the state’s erasure of Ourstory by hearing from unapologetic New Afrikan Revolutionaries who continue to assert their full humanity, speak truth and love up on the People – all oppressed People. Without their contribution, Ourstory is distorted and incomplete, and we risk disrespecting Our Elders who have paid a far too costly price for standing on Principal and refusing to bend their knee to the oppressor, all for Our benefit. Raise your consciousness above the fray and stand in solidarity with the People.

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop
All Power to the People
Liberate Our Elders
Free Africa! Free Palestine!

December 18, 2025

Prison Focus Radio and Liberate the Caged Voices are projects of California Prison Focus. We intentionally and purposefully center  New Afrikan Political Prisoners who organized the Historic California Hunger Strikes, authored the Agreement to End Hostilities, and developed Black August Memorial/Black August Resistance.

These New Afrikans survived decades of torture in solitary confinement in Pelican Bay and Corcoran state prisons—euphemistically called “security housing units” (SHUs)— meant to break their revolutionary minds.

Liberate the Caged Voices exposes the terror and genocide plaguing our People in Prisons, and unites People with the power of revolutionary love.

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