Records
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur's 1987 autobiography (Lawrence Hill Books / Zed). Black Liberation Army member, former Black Panther Party member, convicted in 1977 of the May 2, 1973 killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpike after a confrontation that left Assata wounded and fellow BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur dead. Sentenced to life in N...
Hauling Up the Morning / Izando la Mañana: Writings & Art by Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War in the U.S.
Bilingual (English/Spanish) anthology of writings and visual art by approximately 80 U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war, edited by Tim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur — themselves political prisoners at the time (the Resistance Conspiracy and Ohio 7 cases). Published in 1990 by Red Sea Press / Jacobin Books. The book opens with the declaratio...
Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion
2003 anthology (Rowman & Littlefield) edited by political philosopher Joy James. Collects essays, letters, and theoretical writings from incarcerated U.S. political prisoners across the Black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, American Indian Movement, white anti-imperialist, and Black-feminist generations — including Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, Georg...