Mass Black Incarceration

Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
What’s a Gang, and Who’s In It?
03 Jul 2018
The New York City police department keeps a list of 42,000 alleged gang members, and uses it to bring conspiracy charges that have resulted in mass arrests in Black and brown neighborhoods.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Buffalo Neighborhoods Saturated With Checkpoints
03 Jul 2018
For the past five years, Buffalo, New York, cops have concentrated their checkpoints on the Black side of town, raking in record revenues from fines.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
NYPD Prey on Black and Brown Youth
26 Jun 2018
New York City police are using a 42,000-name “gang” database to prey on Black and brown youth, said Sadiki “Bro Shep” Olugbala, of the Stop The Raids Coalition.
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.”
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Nationwide Prison Strike Set for August 21 – September 9
08 May 2018
The death of 7 inmates in fighting at South Carolina’s Lee correctional facility “is an indictment on the nation as a whole,” said Brother Dee, of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, in an in
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Rev. Pinkney Exonerated, Set Free
08 May 2018
“Nobody ever defeated these people,” but “we’re going to come together and win this war -- it’s goin’ down,” declared Benton Harbor Black activist Rev.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Free Mumia” is a Strategy, Not a Slogan
30 Apr 2018
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Homecoming for Two of the Bronx 120
24 Apr 2018
Two years ago, New York City police and federal agents stormed into five housing developments in the Soundview section of The Bronx and swept up 120 young men on criminal conspiracy charges.