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

LGBTQ Newsletter Surveys Prison Conditions
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
19 Oct 2020
🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · LGBTQ Newsletter Surveys Prison Conditions

The newsletter for the prison abolition organization Black and Pink sent out a 133-page questionnaire to incarcerated LGBTQ persons, earlier this year, so that “we can laser beam solutions to the needs of these individuals,” said organizer Fatima Shabazz, a trans woman. Among the findings of the questionnaire: 85 percent of respondents have spent time in solitary confinement, half of them for two years or more. Black and Pink claims 20,000 members in 13 chapters around the country.

Prison Abolition

Related Podcasts

Black Agenda Radio July 28, 2023
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio July 28, 2023
28 July 2023
Exposing and opposing U.S.
Closing Rikers Island and Decarcerating New York City
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Closing Rikers Island and Decarcerating New York City
28 July 2023
Melanie Dominguez is lead organizer for the Katal Center for Equity, Health and Justice.
Black Agenda Radio February 10, 2023
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio February 10, 2023
10 February 2023
The US regime of economic coercive measures is investigated by a newly formed tribunal, prison abolition is a necessity, and so are changes in drug

More Stories


  • House Democrats’ HR 1 – Faking the Funk on Voting Rights, Spreading Fear and Gunning For the Greens in 2020
    Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    House Democrats’ HR 1 – Faking the Funk on Voting Rights, Spreading Fear and Gunning For the Greens in 2020
    18 Jan 2019
    House Democrats’ HR 1 – Faking the Funk on Voting Rights, Spreading Fear and Gunning For the Greens in 2020
  • A Tale of Self-Serving Black Journalists and the Corporate Duopoly
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    A Tale of Self-Serving Black Journalists and the Corporate Duopoly
    17 Jan 2019
    Diversity insulates the bosses from criticism by large elements of the oppressed classes, while posing little or no threat to capital and the rule of rich white men.
  • Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
    “No Matter What Sign You Are,”4th Supreme
    16 Jan 2019
    Mary was mysterious, but the best dancer Diana, the magnetic, cooing romancer— But, here’s a secret I know: cats like me dug Miss Flo— And the 4th Supreme’s ‘fro!
  • Letters from Our Readers
    Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
    Letters from Our Readers
    16 Jan 2019
    This week’s letters show us that the new political period will require a lot of thinking on the part of those that want to remake society for the better.
  • Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris Destroyed Black Lives
    Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris Destroyed Black Lives
    16 Jan 2019
    Harris has spent her career locking up Black and brown people. She should not be allowed to shake hands, kiss babies or walk into black churches without being taken to task.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us