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Fair & Just Prosecution
Joint Statement From Elected Prosecutors on COVID-19 and Addressing the Rights and Needs of Those in Custody
25 Mar 2020
Overcrowded jail, prison and immigration detention facilities force people together in close quarters without access to proper hygiene or medical care.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Speaks on the Cops and Today’s Deadly Economy
25 Feb 2020
The nation’s best known political prisoner sees parallels between the plight of today’s low wage workers and conditions during the Great Depression, when workers were brutalized for seeking unioniz
Jeff Bryant
How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools
19 Feb 2020
Public school students are being “trained” for jobs at specific corporations rather than educated for a lifetime in a changing world.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Abolish Schooling As We Know It
18 Feb 2020
Public schools in Black America are part of the mass incarceration system, said David Stovall, a professor of African American Studies and Criminology at the University of Illinois
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia: Media Joined the “War Against Assange”
29 Apr 2019
The nation’s best known political prisoner expressed solidarity with Julian Assange and lambasted those institutions that turned their backs on the independent publisher while claiming to defend pr
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
South Carolina “Bears Responsibility” for Prison Deaths
15 Apr 2019
The deaths of seven inmates during disturbances at the Lee County state prison, a year ago, “was the state’s responsibility, that has not been acknowledged,” said veteran anti-mass Black incarcerat
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Failed Black Upper Class Project to “Reform” Poor Black Girls
18 Mar 2019
Between 1919 and 1939, the National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs attempted to run a school for “wayward” Black girls called the Efland Home, in North Carolina.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Solitary Confinement As a Tool of Political Oppression
06 Nov 2018
Since at least the 1950s, prison officials have used solitary confinement as a political tool against Black inmates, said Brittany Friedman, a professor of sociology at Rutgers Uni
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Mumia Deserves Humanitarian Release
08 Oct 2018
Dr Joseph Harris, the personal physician to Mumia Abu Jamal, said the nation’s best known political prisoner should be released for humanitarian reasons, due to the liver damage he
Jessica Corbett
Demanding an End to 'Modern Day Slavery,' Prisoners Launch Multi-Day Nationwide Strike
29 Aug 2018
At root, striking prisoners demand they be treated as human beings; the rest of their demands flow logically from recognition of their humanity.