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  • Bittersweet Freedom for Mutulu Shakur
    Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    Bittersweet Freedom for Mutulu Shakur
    16 Nov 2022
    Mutulu Shakur has been granted parole, but he is terminally ill. Black political prisoners in this country are held for 30, 40 and 50 years. Reprieve happens only when they are at death's door.
  • Nehanda Abiodun and the Legacy of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex
    Abayomi Azikiwe
    Nehanda Abiodun and the Legacy of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex
    31 Aug 2022
    The late Nehanda Abiodun was an African American revolutionary who exemplified the movement to end national oppression and the criminalization of a people.
  • Black Agenda Radio August 19, 2022
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Black Agenda Radio August 19, 2022
    19 Aug 2022
    The history and significance of Black August, presidential elections and politics in Kenya, and reflections on the anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution.
  • ESSAY: Women in Prison: How We Are, Assata Shakur, 1978
    Editors, The Black Agenda Review
    ESSAY: Women in Prison: How We Are, Assata Shakur, 1978
    10 Aug 2022
    Assata Shakur exposes the conditions faced by incarcerated Black women in a powerful 1978 essay.
  • Crazy Like a Woodfox
    Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    Crazy Like a Woodfox
    10 Aug 2022
    Crazy as a Woodfox...
  • Ruchell Magee: US Prisoner, Political Thinker, Rebel, and Still Fighting for Release After 67 Years
    Natalia Marques
    Ruchell Magee: US Prisoner, Political Thinker, Rebel, and Still Fighting for Release After 67 Years
    10 Aug 2022
    Ruchell Magee has been incarcerated for 67 years and is the longest serving political prisoner in the world. Black August is a time to remember him and his role in the Marin County Courthouse…
  • Campaign to Bring Mumia Home
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Campaign to Bring Mumia Home
    01 Jul 2022
    Gwen Debrow of the Campaign to Free Mumia joins to tell us what we can do to go all out for Mumia during the July 3rd nationwide actions.
  • Thin Blue Wall of Silencing: Jalil Muntaqim vs. The (Language) Police
    Spirit of Mandela Writing Committee
    Thin Blue Wall of Silencing: Jalil Muntaqim vs. The (Language) Police
    06 Apr 2022
    Former political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim is still not treated as a free man. In this case, the State University of New York at Brockport succumbed to political pressure and moved his in-person…
  • Russell “Maroon” Shoatz is Free, But Other Political Prisoners Languish
    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.
  • Remembering Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald
    Mack 
    Remembering Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald
    07 Apr 2021
      Having endured 50 years of incarceration, Fitzgerald was California’s longest-serving former Black Panther.
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