| Black Agenda Report

Michael Sainato
Corporations are Making Millions of Dollars From U.S. Prison Labor
25 Jan 2022
A Freedom of Information Act request shines a light on how much private corporations and government agencies have been exploiting prison labor during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Rittenhouse and Verdict Mania
23 Nov 2021
Black people give great attention to certain court cases in hopes of receiving justice when the system is designed to be unjust.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Russell “Maroon” Shoatz is Free, But Other Political Prisoners Languish
27 Oct 2021
The demand for freedom of political prisoners must be consistently made for their sakes and for all at risk of joining them in the future.
Josmar Trujillo
How Prosecutors Use Conspiracy and Questionable Testimony in “Gang” Cases
26 Oct 2021
Conspiracy laws, RICO statutes and "gang" designations are tools of police and prosecutorial misconduct and the maintenance of the mass incarceration state.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
San Francisco Court’s Racist Denial of the Constitutional Right to a Speedy Trial
13 Oct 2021
San Francisco Public Defender Manohar Raju spoke to Ann Garrison about why his office is suing San Francisco Superior Court for denying hundreds of Black and Brown people the speedy trial right
Emily Elena Dugdale, Irena Hwang
In a California Desert Sheriff Deputies Settle Schoolyard Disputes and Black Teens Bear the Brunt
02 Oct 2021
Deputies in California’s Antelope Valley are disproportionately citing Black teens for minor infractions that lead to criminal records and incarceration.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Covid Funds Spent on Police and Prisons
22 Sep 2021
Systemic racism and weak movement politics allow states and cities to spend relief funds on police and jails.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Document: Notes of a Prison Collective: Marion Political Collective, 1976
25 Aug 2021
In 1976, prisoners in the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois wrote a collective document explaining the status of the prisoner within the prison—and the role of the prison
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak calls for National Shut ‘Em Down Demonstrations
25 Aug 2021
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak call for Shut 'Em Down prison abolition actions in 2022.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform, 1971
18 Aug 2021
Black August: Remembering the Attica prisoner demands as the 50th anniversary approaches.