Book Review: The Solitary Fox and The Death/Lifetime Mumia Abu-Jamal

Solitary: Unbroken by Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope. By Albert Woodfox with Leslie George. New York: Grove Press. 414 pp. $26. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, who as a Philadelphia teenager became a Black Panther monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, turns 65 Wednesday. He has been…

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Why Some Like The New Jim Crow So Much

WHY SOME LIKE THE NEW JIM CROW SO MUCH: Michelle Alexander is unlike “Some Radical Group[s]” who must be “Crazy” & “Absurd” by Greg Thomas “This book is not for everyone.” – Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (2010) Riveted on “skeptics,” Michelle Alexander writes of “three major racialized systems of control adopted in the…

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