The Real History of Black Radicalism and the Prison Abolitionist MovementWatch this video on YouTube Author Dan Berger discusses his latest book, Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Read moreEddie Conway on Political Prisoners, Mass Incarceration and The Meaning Of July 4
As another July 4th weekend approaches we thought it appropriate to honor the views of Frederick Douglass by sitting down with Marshall Eddie Conway and Dominque Stevenson for an updated discussion of the holiday from the perspective of the enslaved. Conway, a former head of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was only recently…
Read moreRussell “Maroon” Shoatz and The Euphemism of “Mass Incarceration”
Today we discussed the euphemisms of “mass incarceration,” “new slavery,” “new Jim Crow,” “prison industrial complex,” and others with Dominque Stevenson, Yusef Bunchy Shakur and members of the Friend of A Friend prison program. We also heard from Theresa Shoatz about her father and political prisoner Russell “Maroon” Shoatz and his new book edited by…
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