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Shaka Shakur
#WE TOO
08 Jul 2020
If there can be no peace without justice, then there can never be peace while the US Prison Gulag exists. “Prison Lives Matter as Black Lives Matter!!!”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nicole Fleetwood’s “Marking Time”
01 Jul 2020
Incarcerated activists have so many tools and skills to teach about resisting brutal regimes.
Chris Hedges
My Student Comes Home from Prison
01 Jul 2020
In 1990, Lawrence Bell was 14, orphaned and living in an abandoned house when three Camden cops pressured him to sign a confession of murder.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Repaying the Movement for Her Freedom
15 Jun 2020
Bresha Meadows faced long imprisonment in the shooting death of her abusive father when she was 14 years old, but was sentenced to a year in juvenile detention and six months at a
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
The “Carceral State” is the Enemy
08 Jun 2020
The current wave of protest is correctly “targeting the commodification of Blackness by the state,” said Dr Brittany Friedman, a Rutgers University sociology professor at the Progr
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Former Black Panther Political Prisoner Hospitalized for Covid-19
02 Jun 2020
Jalil Muntaqim, incarcerated for his political activities since 1971, contracted the Covid-19 virus and was admitted to the Albany, New York Medical Center, said Jihad Abdulmumit,
Rhondda Robinson Thomas
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Sarah Haley’s "No Mercy Here"
27 May 2020
In white patriarchy-ruled South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century, manhood sometimes created temporary yet tenuous bonds between Black and white men.
Michelle Chen
Prisons Are Using the Pandemic to Impose Lockdowns
20 May 2020
More than 300,000 people in prisons or jails are under “full or partial lockdown” in response to the pandemic.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: Everybody is Getting a Taste of Lockdown
18 May 2020
The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, says all of Pennsylania’s incarcerated population has been on 23 hour, 15 minute daily lockdown since the beginning of
Jamiles Lartey
New York Tried to Get Rid of Bail. Then the Backlash Came
13 May 2020
The no-bail movement was on a roll from Vermont and New Jersey to Alaska and Georgia – and then the lock ‘em up mob struck back.