Historian, author and activist Paul Street has high praise for James Forman Jr.ās new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Forman is a professor at Yale Law School and a former public defender in Washington, DC. His book āfills a giant hole in the literature,ā illuminating the role played by āBlack elites in the rise of the mass incarceration system,ā said Street, himself an expert on race and the U.S. penal system. āMany ordinary, working class Black voters in the 70s and 80s have actively supported the racially disparate war on crime and drugs that ended up producing racist mass incarceration,ā said Street, whose latest book is titled They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy.
Darren Mack, co-founder and co-director of Freedom Agenda, talks to us about the killing of Robert Brooks, who died after being beaten by corrections officers in a New York state prison, and the needā¦
The National Program against racism and racial discrimination conference was held in Cuba as part of the UN declared International Decade of People of African Descent.
Hagiography is inevitable when presidents and other prominent people die. The unwillingness to āspeak ill of the deadā and the propaganda that would have us believe in American exceptionalism must beā¦
The late Ronald V. Dellums shows us how to fight against the Pentagon-inspired madness of military spending and nuclear proliferation.
Jamaicans still remember their visionary leaders, Norman and Michael Manley, and the bloody general election of 1980.
