Mass Black Incarceration

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.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US War on Black and Brown Youth
31 Dec 2019
“The term ‘gang’ is used for formations of young Black and brown men, but is never seriously used to describe the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, the US military,” said Jus
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A National Movement for Community Control of Police
31 Dec 2019
New York activists look forward to collaborating with the newly established National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression in creating a network to fight for community control of police
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Many Blacks Would Welcome Police Exit from Their Communities
10 Dec 2019
“The whole battlefield array of weapons is now deployed in Black and brown 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.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia: Even Angela Davis Shocked by US Mass Incarceration
05 Nov 2019
Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, notes that even trailblazing prison abolition scholar Angela Davis, herself a former political prisoner, underestimated
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.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Prisoners Scapegoated While Rich Loot Society
14 Oct 2019
In an essay titled, “What Kind of Society Are We?” New York state prison inmate Donti Mitchell says citizens outside the walls should not be resentful that he is allowed