Related Stories
Linn Washington
22 April 2020
Black state lawmakers helped scuttle efforts to legalize marijuana in the Garden State and Black preachers have been huge impediments to legalizati
Fair & Just Prosecution
25 March 2020
Overcrowded jail, prison and immigration detention facilities force people together in close quarters without access to proper hygiene or medical c
Jeff Bryant
19 February 2020
Public school students are being “trained” for jobs at specific corporations rather than educated for a lifetime in a changing world.
Jessica Corbett
29 August 2018
At root, striking prisoners demand they be treated as human beings; the rest of their demands flow logically from recognition of their humanity.
Leslie Mac
27 June 2018
“This country continues to routinely separate children from their parents and has done so well before this cu
Chris Hedges
07 March 2018
“The carcel state is a subculture unto itself, with an $81 billion budget and tremendous political clout.”
Dylan Rodríguez
28 February 2018
“The reform of mass incarceration, as it has been absorbed by the cultural ensemble of the state and its dist
Glen Ford
, BAR executive editor
13 September 2017
“Johnny Reb’s footprint on the landscape is tiny compared to the 5,000 state and federal prisons and jails th
More Stories
- Zayid Muhammad03 Mar 2021The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee speaks on Ray Wood’s deathbed 'non-confession' to crimes committed before and during the great leader’s assassination.
- Tina Vásquez03 Mar 2021Black immigrants are among the most vulnerable and we always have a target on our back and it has been no different under Biden.
- Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist03 Mar 2021Most Democrats either don’t want a minimum wage increase or are too afraid of bucking their party’s donor class.
- Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor03 Mar 2021Biden’s brand of American exceptionalism has run up against the general crisis of the U.S. imperialist order.
- Editors, The Black Agenda Review03 Mar 2021Claudia Jones’s arrests and eventual deportation were part of the expansion of the US government’s Cold War attacks on immigrants—Black immigrants included—who were affiliated with the Communist Pa