| Black Agenda Report

Alice Speri
New York Schools Gang Unit Pushes the Criminalization of Children
19 Feb 2020
A school handbook paints a picture of youth criminality that is steeped in law enforcement lingo and appears to have been written by police rather than educators.
Adofo Minka
Prison Reform and the State: The Impending Confrontation in Mississippi
12 Feb 2020
The recent prison reform rallies at the Mississippi Capitol were more akin to being for a Middle Passage with more efficient plumbing.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Fikile Nxumalo’s “Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education”
29 Jan 2020
The author rejects ways of teaching that distort Black young people’s relationships with the natural world.
Michelle Alexander
The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an "Aberration"
22 Jan 2020
Yes, Trump is an inveterate liar, but American politicians have always told lies about the Black and brown people they demonize and mass-imprison.
Anna Wolfe and Michelle Liu
Want Out of Jail? First You Have to Take a Fast Food Job
22 Jan 2020
The convict labor system was once notorious in Mississippi – and it still is, under the guise of debt restitution.
BAP-Baltimore
Baltimore’s Black Alliance for Peace Demands End to Policing Surge
15 Jan 2020
Baltimore is among the seven cities targeted by the Trump administration for a high-tech “surge” in police penetration of Black communities.
Jordan Smith
Texas Court Halts Rodney Reed Execution Over Questions of Withheld Evidence, False Testimony
20 Nov 2019
A Black man gets a reprieve from execution in the death of a white woman who may have been killed by her cop husband.
Joe Iosbaker
“The Damned Don’t Cry: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and Organizer” -- a Review of a book by Frank Edgar Chapman, Jr.
23 Oct 2019
Frank Chapman’s book should be on the shelf with the Autobiography of Malcolm X and Soledad Brother.
Victoria Law
They Survived Solitary Confinement. Now They’re Fighting to End It.
11 Sep 2019
On any given day, 80,000 people are locked in solitary confinement in US prisons and jails.
Jake Johnson
Sanders Unveils Plan to “Fundamentally Transform” Criminal Legal System
21 Aug 2019
The presidential candidate calls for people to “stand together” to end the war on drugs and cut the prison population in half.