Related Stories
Too Black
Black August is an important month of political education, but it should not solely be about the past.
Shaka Shakur
Shaka Shakur is a revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner who has spent the past two decades incarcerated by the Indiana Department of Corrections o
Stephen Wilson
Martin Sostre (1923-2015) was a political prisoner, jailhouse lawyer, and Black anarchist of Puerto Rican descent.
Jesse Barber
, Simon McCormack
Black people are disproportionately convicted of felonies across New York State.
The Mapping Project
The prison system links corporate interests, the military industrial complex, and policing into a web of oppression impacting more than 2 milli
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black legislators in New York are defending their legislation which reduces the use of cash bail.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The mass incarceration state was built to lock up as many Black people as possible and discussion of even modest reforms is shut down.
Michael Sainato
A Freedom of Information Act request shines a light on how much private corporations and government agencies have been exploiting prison labor
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black people give great attention to certain court cases in hopes of receiving justice when the system is designed to be unjust.
More Stories
- Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing EditorThere is a lesson to be learned from the differences in recent U.S. and Chinese historical celebrations.
- Editors, The Black Agenda ReviewPublished in 1920, Self-Determining Haiti remains a remarkable example of investigative journalism and advocacy and a damning testament to the perils and pitfalls of US military
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorThree nations share the same water, but not the same foreign connections, which makes for a dangerous mix.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residenceCould the pigment of your imagination cause Black magic mascots, props, sops— Black faces in high places— to short-circuit electrical gray spaces?
- Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnistMillions have turned away from the illusions and corruption of capitalism toward the possibility of organizing a society informed by the values of cooperation, equality, community, peace, and life.