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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Brittany Friedman’s Book, “Carceral Apartheid”
07 May 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Brittany Friedman. Friedman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Rikers Island, Slave Catching, and the Modern Carceral State
07 Mar 2025
Darren Mack is co-founder and co-director of Freedom Agenda, an organization devoted to decarceration and system transformation, including
Christina Carrega
Despite Pardons, Many Formerly Incarcerated Black People Still Face Uncertainty
29 Jan 2025
Biden’s final executive order commuted sentences for thousands, but “collateral consequences” remain a risk.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio January 10, 2025
10 Jan 2025
We talk about the killing of Robert Brooks by prison corrections officers and the need to close Rikers Island. We also discuss a recent Cuban conference dedicated to ending racism in that country.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Robert Brooks, Rikers Island and the Fight Against New York Incarceration
10 Jan 2025
Darren Mack, co-founder and co-director of Freedom Agenda, talks to us about the killing of Robert Brooks, who died after being beaten by corrections officers in a New York state prison, and the need…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REPORT: “The People Who Were Left to Die:” Horrors Suffered by Orleans Parish Prisoners in Wake of Katrina, ACLU, 2006
28 Aug 2024
Remembering the terrible plight of the incarcerated during Hurricane Katrina.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aisha Beliso-De Jesús’ Book, “Excited Delirium”
14 Aug 2024
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Aisha Beliso-De Jesús. Dr. Beliso-De Jesús is Olden Street Professor of American…
Kwanetta Harris
Boiling on the Inside
17 Apr 2024
Incarcerated People in Texas Weather Extreme Heat in non-Air Conditioned Prisons.
Max Parthas
The Evolution of Slavery
07 Feb 2024
In the U.S., a nation built on the enslavement and exploitation of humans, the system of slavery cannot be destroyed. It has merely changed from one form to another.