Records
A Brief History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle
Sundiata Acoli's original 1992 essay tracing the political history of Black political prisoners in U.S. state and federal custody from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. Written from inside, the text articulates the New Afrikan political identity — the post-1968 Republic of New Afrika tradition of Black national consciousness, anti-imperialist alignment...
Bits N Pieces, by Sundiata Acoli
Collected shorter writings, letters, and political statements of Sundiata Acoli — Black Liberation Army member and longtime political prisoner held by New Jersey state corrections from 1973 to 2022. Acoli was convicted in 1974 alongside Assata Shakur for the May 1973 New Jersey Turnpike incident that killed State Trooper Werner Foerster. He was released on p...
Coming of Age: A New Afrikan Revolutionary
Autobiographical and political writings of a New Afrikan revolutionary documenting the generation that came of age inside U.S. federal and state custody during the Black liberation prosecutions of the 1970s and 1980s. The text articulates the New Afrikan political identity — separate Black national consciousness, anti-imperialist commitment, prison-organizin...