Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

U.S. Prisoners Need Some Love
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
17 Oct 2017
🖨️ Print Article

In an essay for Prison Radio, Charles Diggs, an inmate at Pennsylvania’s Graterford state prison, said U.S. leaders “need the courage to imagine something different than 1,500 prisons all over the country.”

Mass Black Incarceration

Related Podcasts

Involuntary Servitude in the Prison System
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Involuntary Servitude in the Prison System
24 June 2022
Savannah Eldrige is the founder of Coaliton to Abolish Slave
White Capitalist Law vs “Uncontrollable Blackness”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
White Capitalist Law vs “Uncontrollable Blackness”
01 September 2020
The United States “criminalizes Black Americans,” but Black men “are not looking to be controlled” by this racist system, said Douglas
 Getting Out the Word: #PrisonsKill
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Getting Out the Word: #PrisonsKill
25 August 2020
The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, IWOC, “is committed to the militant organizing of prisoners that takes its leadership and focus from

More Stories


  • Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness
    Annie Olaloku-Teriba
    Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness
    01 Aug 2018
    “The meme of militant Black America has been allowed to cannibalise the broader traditions of resistance within which those militants were situated.”
  • BAR Book Forum: Sylvia Chan-Malik’s “Being Muslim”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Sylvia Chan-Malik’s “Being Muslim”
    01 Aug 2018
    “The book shows how deeply intertwined logics of anti-Muslim racism are with those of anti-Blackness.”
  • BAR Book Forum: Tracy Fessenden’s “Religion Around Billie Holiday”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Tracy Fessenden’s “Religion Around Billie Holiday”
    01 Aug 2018
    “Billie Holiday reminds us to look unflinchingly at the face of power, to call things by their true names.”
  • US Secret Wars in Africa Rage on Despite Talk of Downsizing
    Nick Turse
    US Secret Wars in Africa Rage on Despite Talk of Downsizing
    01 Aug 2018
    “There is no evidence yet of massive cuts, gradual reductions, or any downsizing whatsoever.”
  • The Black Panthers Still in Prison After 46 years, Will They Ever Be Set free?
    Ed Pilkington
    The Black Panthers Still in Prison After 46 years, Will They Ever Be Set free?
    01 Aug 2018
    “Every two years the Band-Aid gets ripped off your heart.”
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us