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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Document: Notes of a Prison Collective: Marion Political Collective, 1976
25 Aug 2021
In 1976, prisoners in the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois wrote a collective document explaining the status of the prisoner within the prison—and the role of the prison
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak calls for National Shut ‘Em Down Demonstrations
25 Aug 2021
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak call for Shut 'Em Down prison abolition actions in 2022.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform, 1971
18 Aug 2021
Black August: Remembering the Attica prisoner demands as the 50th anniversary approaches.
Linn Washington
Wrong On Weed – Blacks And Marijuana Myths
22 Apr 2020
Black state lawmakers helped scuttle efforts to legalize marijuana in the Garden State and Black preachers have been huge impediments to legalization.
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