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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio November 18, 2022
18 Nov 2022
The electoral process furthers the interest of capital and subverts what the people want. A manufactured crime panic enhances the power of the police and perpetuates racist politics.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
A Manufactured Crime Panic in New York
18 Nov 2022
Ashoka Jegroo is a multimedia journalist who reports on protests and policing.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Crazy Like a Woodfox
10 Aug 2022
Crazy as a Woodfox...
The Mapping Project
Prison in Plain Sight: Visualizing the Economic Veins That Fuel Our Carceral Reality
13 Jul 2022
The prison system links corporate interests, the military industrial complex, and policing into a web of oppression impacting more than 2 million people in this country. The Mapping Project reports…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
New York Bail Reform Fight
23 Feb 2022
Black legislators in New York are defending their legislation which reduces the use of cash bail. In so doing they protect the legal and human rights of Black people in that state.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Eric Adams' Black on Black Crime
09 Feb 2022
The mass incarceration state was built to lock up as many Black people as possible and discussion of even modest reforms is shut down.
Michael Sainato
Corporations are Making Millions of Dollars From U.S. Prison Labor
25 Jan 2022
A Freedom of Information Act request shines a light on how much private corporations and government agencies have been exploiting prison labor during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Rittenhouse and Verdict Mania
23 Nov 2021
Black people give great attention to certain court cases in hopes of receiving justice when the system is designed to be unjust.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Russell “Maroon” Shoatz is Free, But Other Political Prisoners Languish
27 Oct 2021
The demand for freedom of political prisoners must be consistently made for their sakes and for all at risk of joining them in the future.
Josmar Trujillo
How Prosecutors Use Conspiracy and Questionable Testimony in “Gang” Cases
26 Oct 2021
Conspiracy laws, RICO statutes and "gang" designations are tools of police and prosecutorial misconduct and the maintenance of the mass incarceration state.