Related Stories
Reuven Blau
After a damning revelation eight years ago, state leaders changed the make-up of the Parole Board to combat inequality.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Assata Shakur exposes the conditions faced by incarcerated Black women in a powerful 1978 essay.
Netfa Freeman
The US political elite and their elite press are using the fraudulent claims about a “crime wave” as an ideological offensive, a backlash, agai
Tamar Sarai Davis
The ‘slavery clause’ made the passage of restrictions targeting Black people like the Black Codes possible as well as convict leasing of
Lisa Armstrong
Prison officials could have prevented sickness and death by releasing those who were most vulnerable to coronavirus and least likely to reoffend —
Henry A. Giroux
The same activists who are working to defund the police are also part of a collective movement to bring an end to neoliberal capitalism.
Chris Gelardi
“Police can call you a gang member because they observed you with other gang members, who they declared gang members because they were with other g
Weihua Li, Beth Schwartzapfel, Michael R. Sisak and Camille Fassett
Judges, prosecutors and sheriffs in many states sent people home instead of to jail last year, but new data suggests the change is not lasting.
H. Claire Brown
The small world of prison food production is a microcosm of the American food system, which all too o#en functions as a race to the bottom.
Adam Mahoney
After first being forced to live in chemically toxic communities, Black and Brown people are then incarcerated in jails where they cannot escape so
More Stories
- Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior ColumnistFighting Trump’s racist attacks is obviously a necessity but that fight must include opposing the Black misleadership class and their collaboration.
- Editors, The Black Agenda Review“ U.S. imperialism…is making desperate efforts to consolidate its hegemonic system of domination. We cannot allow this to happen.”
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorLikening the suffering of Gazans to that of Rwandan Tutsis perpetuates the narrative that has dominated the African Great Lakes Region for 30 years, allegedly justifying the sacrifice
- Anthony Karefa Rogers-WrightThis Rosh Hashana falls during an ongoing genocide, creating a profound moral crisis for Jewish people. The holiday demands a rejection of the state committing these acts in the name of Jewish safety.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence"(Don’t) 'Say his name!'" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.