| Black Agenda Report

Dana G. Smith
Neuroscientists Make a Case Against Solitary Confinement
14 Nov 2018
On any given day, 80,000 US prisoners are subjected to punishment that inflicts permanent damage to the brain.
Jessica Pupovac and Kari Lydersen
Women in Prison Punished More Harshly than Men Around the Country
25 Oct 2018
Women in prisons across the country are disciplined at significantly higher rates than male inmates for mostly minor, subjective infractions.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: Romarilyn Ralston
19 Sep 2018
Incarcerated people are limited to pushing prison reform, while the unincarcerated have the privilege to advocate abolition.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Prison Strike 2018
29 Aug 2018
Inmates in states across the nation are on strike against the world’s largest and most racist prison system. Hopefully, they won’[t be betrayed by quisling civil rights misleaders, as in 2010.
Jamiles Lartey
Memphis Cops Spy on Black Activists -- and Dare Anybody to Try and Stop Them
29 Aug 2018
Memphis cops blatantly flaunt their targeting of Black activists, despite a judge’s ruling that the cops have violated a federal consent decree by continuing political surveillance.
Josmar Trujillo
Papers Insist ‘We Need’ Secret Gang Databases—Just Like We ‘Needed’ Stop & Frisk
04 Jul 2018
“Police gang databases can lead to increased bail, harsher sentencing, erosion of presumption of innocence and even increased chances of deportation.”
Ken Peeples
US Criminal Justice: Why the Two-Tiered Justice System is Really THREE-Tiered
20 Jun 2018
“Mass incarceration and selective enforcement of laws is a conscious decisionin this country.”
Tryon P. Woods
“Stand Your Ground”: Siwatu-Salama Ra and Black Self-Defense, Part 2
16 May 2018
“In a slaveholding society such as ours, even after the formal institution of chattel slavery has ended, each and every legal principle ultimately expresses the foundational antagonism
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Why Is Former Black Panther Chip Fitzgerald Still Behind Bars?
09 May 2018
“The good news is that we don't have to wait the full five years.”
Rachel Wolkenstein
New Legal Action is a Path to Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Freedom, But a Re-ignited International Mobilization is Critical for Victory
07 Mar 2018
“It will take international mobilization of the masses, centrally labor and its allies, minorities, immigrants and youth to turn the tide and win Mumia’s freedom.”