Political Prisoner

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Women for Peace Collaborate to Support Rwanda, Congo, and Rwandan Political Prisoner Victoire Ingabire
10 Dec 2025
CODEPINK is collaborating with the International Women’s Network for Democracy and Peace, which works for peace and democracy in Africa, on a webinar on Rwanda, Congo, and the case of Rwandan…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EXCERPT: Die Nigger, Die! H. Rap Brown, 1969
26 Nov 2025
“Blackness alone is not revolutionary.”
Black Alliance For Peace
Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Presente!
26 Nov 2025
From the front lines of the Black Power movement to a Georgia prison cell, the life of Imam Jamil Al-Amin represents a continuous thread of resistance and the state's relentless retaliation against…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
On The Left Side of History: Political Prisoner Imam Jamil Al Amin
26 Nov 2025
Imam Jamil Al-Amin was a revolutionary targeted by the state from the 1960s until he was unjustly convicted of murder in 2002. He died on November 23, 2025, an elder political prisoner who had been…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LETTER: To My People, Assata Shakur, 1973
01 Oct 2025
“There is and always will be, until every Black man, woman, and child is free, a Black Liberation Army.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: Fatima Bernawi: The Tragedy of a People, 1978
13 Aug 2025
“The reason for these military operations was, and still is, to tell the Israeli occupation that we defy it and are willing to resist and go anywhere to express our defiance.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Free All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
26 Jun 2024
Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning paid a high price for revealing U.S. vicious criminality in Iraq. Their experiences are indicative of how far the state will go to silence anyone who reveals its…
Julia Wright
How to Resist the Deliberate Medical Neglect of Our Political Prisoners
28 Feb 2024
The state uses tactics such as medical neglect, to slowly assassinate political prisoners like Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Sekou Odinga Has Joined the Ancestors But the Spirit of the Black Liberation Army And African Resistance Lives On!
17 Jan 2024
A commemoration of the life of comrade Sekou Odinga, a lifelong New African revolutionary, former political prisoner, and unstoppable force in the Black liberation movement.
Akinyele Umoja
Mutulu Shakur
12 Jul 2023
Mutulu Shakur passed away just seven months after being paroled. Like other political prisoners he was released only when he was terminally ill. The US has more political prisoners and incarcerates…