| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jesse Olsavsky’s Book, “The Most Absolute Abolition”
10 Aug 2022
This week’s featured author is Jesse Olsavsky. Olsavsky is Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University in China.. His book is The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
This Movement Has “Reach and Longevity”
28 Sep 2020
Calls for defunding and abolition of the police are no longer fringe demands due to the “remarkable” growth of the mass movement, said Asha Noor, a racial justice and human rights
Randal Maurice Jelks
Black Abolitionists Believed in Taking Up Arms
29 Jan 2020
Long before the Civil War, Black abolitionists shared the consensus that violence would be necessary to end slavery.
Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Marcela Howelland Jessica González-Rojas
How the Promise of Roe v. Wade Left Women of Color Behind
22 May 2019
Roe has never been full of promise for women of color, immigrant women and women with low incomes, who also have the most to lose.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: Diana Block
20 Feb 2019
Society needs prison abolition in order to heal, but people living in prison need basic humane conditions in order to survive.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: "Mia Mingus”
09 Jan 2019
Prison abolition and reform are compatible “when reform is done in service of abolition." “State violence and intimate violence are deeply connected.”
Critical Resistance
A National Abolitionist Victory for Public Health!
22 Nov 2018
Stop using police to deal with social problems and contain marginalized communities, says a report by a group representing 25,000 public health professionals.
Ashon Crawley and Roberto Sirvent
Call for Submissions: Abolition Journal’s Special Issue on “Spirituality and Abolition”
22 Aug 2018
This Call for Submission asks the question: what can prison abolition, and other abolitions, teach us about spiritual practice, spiritual journey, spiritual commitment?