Mass Black Incarceration

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Every Murdered Black Person Deserves Protest
10 Apr 2018
“We should hear about these killings every day, because they happen every day,” said Margaret Kimberley, editor and senior colu
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mass Incarceration With No End?
20 Mar 2018
Although US incarceration rates have been going down in recent years, at the current pace it would take 75 years to cut the prison population in half, according to Nazgol Ghandnoosh
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Beware the Dangers of Reformism
05 Mar 2018
Reformers often wind up legitimizing and strengthening police power, said Dylan Rodriguez, professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside.
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
The Underground Struggle Continues
19 Feb 2018
Shannon Jones and her comrades in Bronxites for NYPD Accountability have taken the struggle against police repression underground, into the subway system, where they encourage folk
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Sentencing Reform Bill Moves Forward on Capital Hill
19 Feb 2018
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s passage of a drug sentencing bill is a significant step forward for criminal justice reform, said Kara Gotsch, of The Sentencing Project, especiall
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Mumia: 36 Years Behind Bars
16 Jan 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner is locked in a complex legal battle that might overturn his 1982 conviction in the death of a Philadelphia cop.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Thanks His Supporters
12 Dec 2017
Activists gathered in Philadelphia to march, attend teach-ins and demand freedom for Mumia Abu Jamal, who has spent 35 years behind bars in the death of a policeman.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Baltimore Police Throw Constitution Out the Window
23 Nov 2017
by Glen Ford “Even when police are in ‘hot pursuit’ of a criminal suspect, they cannot treat a whole neighborhood like criminals.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
DA Wants Sugar Bear’s Blood
24 Oct 2017
Courts threw out Robert “Sugar Bear” Lark’s conviction in a 1979 murder because Blacks had been systematically kept off Philadelphia juries.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Prisoners Need Some Love
17 Oct 2017
In an essay for Prison Radio, Charles Diggs, an inmate at Pennsylvania’s Graterford state prison, said U.S.