| Black Agenda Report

George Joseph and Debbie Nathan
Prisons Are Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints
20 Feb 2019
Hundreds of thousands of inmates’ voices have been imprinted, potentially ensnaring millions of family members, friends and supporters in the huge surveillance net.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Restorative Justice” Serves Communities
18 Feb 2019
“When there is harm in the community, we should focus on healing that community,” not on retribution for the offense, said “restorative justice” proponent Vincent Lloyd, a professo
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Philly DA is Focus of Mumia Rally
15 Jan 2019
Supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal rallied in Philadelphia, demanding that District Attorney Larry Krasner not thwart his appeal of a police murder conviction, 38 years ago.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A “Pathway to Freedom” for Mumia
08 Jan 2019
A recent court ruling that “there was, in fact, judicial bias” in denying Mumia Abu Jamal’s appeal of his conviction in the 1982 death of a cop shows that “this is a different moment in American hi
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Yes, White People Are Also Killed by the Mass Black Incarceration Regime
03 Jan 2019
The WSWS site has done a disservice to Marxism and to the Black Lives Matter movement with its ideologically driven study of police killings in the U.S., focusing on dead white people.
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Judge to Soon Rule on Mumia’s Appeal Bid
04 Dec 2018
Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Leon Tucker promised a decision on whether a former prosecutor unlawfully took part as a judge in rejecting Mumia Abu Jamal’s appeal of his 1981 conviction in the ki
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Prison Officials Encourage Recidivism
19 Nov 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner says prison officials don’t want to break the cycle of recidivism that sends former inmates back to confinement.
Dana G. Smith
Neuroscientists Make a Case Against Solitary Confinement
14 Nov 2018
On any given day, 80,000 US prisoners are subjected to punishment that inflicts permanent damage to the brain.
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Real Prison Reform Requires Constitutional Revision
06 Nov 2018
Eliminating the portion of the 13thAmendment to the US Constitution that allow enslavement of prisoners is central to prison reform, said prison abolitionist and spoken word artist Max Part
Jessica Pupovac and Kari Lydersen
Women in Prison Punished More Harshly than Men Around the Country
25 Oct 2018
Women in prisons across the country are disciplined at significantly higher rates than male inmates for mostly minor, subjective infractions.