Mass Black Incarceration

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.
Morgan Humphrey
The Assassinations, Hyper-Surveillance and Harassment of Blacks is Just Business as Usual for Law Enforcement
13 Dec 2017
“The drug war is the justification to create a police state of black and Latinx communities.”
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.”
Prince Shakur
Youth Incarceration in the United States, Explained
08 Nov 2017
“First Lady Hillary Clinton referred to certain youths as ‘super-predators.’”
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.