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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The following is an edited summary of comments made previously during The Angela Project (2017) conference and were initially slated for publication in a subsequent journal. Given all that has occurred since, including my disagreements with the founders of “#ADOS” who had initially invited me to this conference, I suspect it is the comments I…
Read moreRace, Rebellion, Reporting and Research: Baltimore and The Kerner Commission at 50
“Can you hear me? … I’m Screaming from way down here below!” – Hugh Masekela I. INTRODUCTION “Chief Blame for Riots Put on White Racism,” read the first first published headline 50 years ago today about the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and suggests why the story was largely the result…
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