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

Ending Life Without Parole, Death by Incarceration, in Pennsylvania
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
11 Oct 2024
🖨️ Print Article

Black Agenda Radio · Ending Life Without Parole, Death by Incarceration, in Pennsylvania

Quinn Cozzens is a staff attorney at the Abolitionist Law Center. He joins us to discuss the case of Derek Lee, convicted of felony murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole for a killing he did not commit. In Pennsylvania 1,100 people are serving sentences of life without parole, death by incarceration, and 70 percent of those persons are Black. Derek Lee is challenging his sentence before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Quinn Cozzens joins us from Pittsburgh.

mass incarceration
Pennsylvania

Related Podcasts

BAR Radio Logo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio May 30, 2025
30 May 2025
In this week’s segment we talk about jails and prisons in New York City and State and the end of city control of the infamous Rikers Island jail.
bar radio
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio April 25, 2025
25 April 2025
In this week’s segment, we hear about police propaganda designed to make the public fearful and ready to exact severe punish
Black Agenda Radio
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio April 18, 2025
19 April 2025
In this week’s segment we discuss New York state proposals to change rules on discovery, the sharing of evidence between defense attorneys and pros

More Stories


  • Deja vu—Step 1 and Step 2? 
    Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    Deja vu—Step 1 and Step 2? 
    02 Sep 2020
    Is this Deja Vu— Step1 and Step 2? The long, long lines breaking with 12 years of Reaganite reaction in  ’92  Slick Willy’s $campaign—his sax-
  • “The Balls in (Y)our Court:” Naomi Osaka and (Continued) Black Genocide 
    P. Khalil Saucier
    “The Balls in (Y)our Court:” Naomi Osaka and (Continued) Black Genocide 
    02 Sep 2020
    Osaka’s statement must be seen as part of a radical tradition too often redacted from sports history.
  • The Invention of Ibram X Kendi and the Ideological Crises of Our Time
    Anthony Monteiro
    The Invention of Ibram X Kendi and the Ideological Crises of Our Time
    02 Sep 2020
    Rich white capitalists may be donating millions to Black Lives Matter, but they’re also funding and praising nonsense like Kendi’s babblings on race and capitalism.
  • Letters from Our Readers
    Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
    Letters from Our Readers
    02 Sep 2020
    This week the Democratic Party presidential ticket was on your minds.
  • BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
    Asha Noor
    BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
    02 Sep 2020
    An abolitionist frame of thought is a rebirth, a spiritual process, a painful undertaking, and an ancestral conjuring for Black and brown people.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us