MBE for Simon Mayo in the Queen’s Birthday Honours
Simon Mayo has been awarded an MBE for services to radio broadcasting in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2021.
The list demonstrates the extraordinary efforts made by individuals in all four nations of the United Kingdom during the pandemic.
Also being recognised is Beverley Humphreys from BBC Radio Wales for her services to Community Cohesion and Broadcasting, Mark Robinson, founder of Prison Radio, for services to HM Prison and Probation Service and Offenders, and 5 Live and Radio London’s Jeanette Kwakye for services to Sport and Sports Broadcasting.
The List includes those who have worked throughout the crisis, putting others before themselves – from caring neighbours, frontline and community heroes, to those supporting the UK recovery.
The state of Mumia
Mumia Abu-Jamal, 2019.
The following lightly edited commentary appeared on Prison Radio on May 12.
I don’t usually do this. This is discussing myself. I find it far more interesting to tell the stories of others, the revolving globe on which we dwell and the stories spawned by the fragile human condition and the struggles of humanity for liberation.
But I digress, uncomfortably.
This commentary is about the commentator.
Several weeks ago I underwent a medical procedure known as open heart surgery, a double bypass, after it was learned that two vessels beating through my heart have significant blockages that impaired heart function.
Brick by brick and wall by wall, we will free Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Erica Caines
This lightly edited presentation was given by Erica Caines, with Black Alliance for Peace and Hood Communist editor, at an April 15 press conference to demand the immediate release of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
I am a member of the Black Alliance for Peace, and I’m also co-editor of the African revolutionary blog Hood Communists. I’m very honored to speak a bit about Mumia Abu-Jamal and his present influence on this movement era.
Mumia once said that 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. In Mumia’s case, the state of Pennsylvania is deeply invested in ensuring that there will be no more days for him.
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