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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.
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Mumia Supporters Gear Up for Hearing
14 Aug 2018
Mumia Abu Jamal supporters need to converge on Philadelphia in large numbers, on August 30, for hearings on Abu Jamal’s contention that judicial bias tainted his trial process, said Johanna
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Abolish the US Gulag
23 Jul 2018
Activists with Critical Resistance NYC have launched a letter-writing campaign to political prisoners.
Leslie Mac
Family Separation Through Prison and Policing Should Also Outrage Us
27 Jun 2018
“This country continues to routinely separate children from their parents and has done so well before this current border crisis.”