Related Stories
Reuven Blau
After a damning revelation eight years ago, state leaders changed the make-up of the Parole Board to combat inequality.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Assata Shakur exposes the conditions faced by incarcerated Black women in a powerful 1978 essay.
Netfa Freeman
The US political elite and their elite press are using the fraudulent claims about a “crime wave” as an ideological offensive, a backlash, agai
Tamar Sarai Davis
The ‘slavery clause’ made the passage of restrictions targeting Black people like the Black Codes possible as well as convict leasing of
Lisa Armstrong
Prison officials could have prevented sickness and death by releasing those who were most vulnerable to coronavirus and least likely to reoffend —
Henry A. Giroux
The same activists who are working to defund the police are also part of a collective movement to bring an end to neoliberal capitalism.
Chris Gelardi
“Police can call you a gang member because they observed you with other gang members, who they declared gang members because they were with other g
Weihua Li, Beth Schwartzapfel, Michael R. Sisak and Camille Fassett
Judges, prosecutors and sheriffs in many states sent people home instead of to jail last year, but new data suggests the change is not lasting.
H. Claire Brown
The small world of prison food production is a microcosm of the American food system, which all too o#en functions as a race to the bottom.
Adam Mahoney
After first being forced to live in chemically toxic communities, Black and Brown people are then incarcerated in jails where they cannot escape so
More Stories
- Black Agenda Radio with Margaret KimberleyA discussion about violence against a Black woman in the Black liberation movement and the political actions planned for this summer's upcoming nominating conventions. First, the story of a professor…
- Black Agenda Radio with Margaret KimberleySteven Salaita talks to us about his new book, "An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries", a story about his life following his termination from a tenured professorship due to his…
- Black Agenda Radio with Margaret KimberleyCheri Honkala and Shamako Noble from the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign join to discuss the work of their organization and their planned actions at the Democratic and…
- Black Agenda Radio with Margaret KimberleyDeborah Jones and Thandisizwe Chimurenga joins us to talk about the book, "What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman", the violence Jones experienced in the liberation movement, and…
- Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior ColumnistFears of an “invasion” at the border are nothing more than white supremacy being openly expressed. It could not be otherwise in a settler colony created by migration from Europe. To millions of…