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Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Many Blacks Would Welcome Police Exit from Their Communities
10 Dec 2019
“The whole battlefield array of weapons is now deployed in Black and brown communities.”
Jordan Smith
Texas Court Halts Rodney Reed Execution Over Questions of Withheld Evidence, False Testimony
20 Nov 2019
A Black man gets a reprieve from execution in the death of a white woman who may have been killed by her cop husband.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia: Even Angela Davis Shocked by US Mass Incarceration
05 Nov 2019
Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, notes that even trailblazing prison abolition scholar Angela Davis, herself a former political prisoner, underestimated
Joe Iosbaker
“The Damned Don’t Cry: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and Organizer” -- a Review of a book by Frank Edgar Chapman, Jr.
23 Oct 2019
Frank Chapman’s book should be on the shelf with the Autobiography of Malcolm X and Soledad Brother.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Prisoners Scapegoated While Rich Loot Society
14 Oct 2019
In an essay titled, “What Kind of Society Are We?” New York state prison inmate Donti Mitchell says citizens outside the walls should not be resentful that he is allowed to attend
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Halt – Don’t Expand – Mass Incarceration in New York
14 Oct 2019
The Black Alliance for Just Immigration supports the “No New Jails NYC” campaign to prevent the city from building 12 new prisons to replace the cells that will be lost when the infamous Rikers Isl
Victoria Law
They Survived Solitary Confinement. Now They’re Fighting to End It.
11 Sep 2019
On any given day, 80,000 people are locked in solitary confinement in US prisons and jails.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The “Great Contradiction” of US Incarceration
10 Sep 2019
Donte Mitchell, a longtime prisoner of the State of New York, finds essential truths in the poem, “The Great Contradiction,” as it applies to the two million prisoners in US.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Slavery is Model for US Prison Book-Banning
10 Sep 2019
Although First Amendment guarantees of freedom of expression apply to prisoners, the “catch is that these rights can be restricted in the interest of security,” said Professor Brittany Friedman, a
Jake Johnson
Sanders Unveils Plan to “Fundamentally Transform” Criminal Legal System
21 Aug 2019
The presidential candidate calls for people to “stand together” to end the war on drugs and cut the prison population in half.