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...
An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle
Sundiata Acoli's primary essay on the history of the New Afrikan Prison Movement — the political and organizational tradition of Black political prisoners in U.S. state and federal custody developed from the late 1960s onward. Covers the 1960s-1970s prison rebellions (Attica, San Quentin, Folsom), the BLA-era prisoner cohort, the founding of the Republic of...
Capitalism Has Won a Game But Not the Championship — Benedetti / Buck (1990)
Essay by Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti translated from Spanish by imprisoned anti-imperialist Marilyn Buck, reflecting on socialism after the Cold War.
For Mutulu Shakur, the Revolution Isn't Over — The City Sun (April 1986)
April 1986 City Sun article on the life, political activities, and federal imprisonment of Dr. Mutulu Shakur.
Mutulu Shakur — Post 9/11 Challenges to International Law (September 2002)
September 2002 essay by Mutulu Shakur and Gibran Ali analyzing post-9/11 challenges to international law from inside U.S. prisons.
New Afrikan/Black PP & POW — Conditions of Confinement
Essay by attorney Jill Soffiyah Elijah analyzing the conditions of confinement faced by New Afrikan/Black political prisoners and POWs.
Poems of Veronza Bowers (June 1974)
Four-page set of poems by Black Panther political prisoner Veronza Bowers Jr., written during his incarceration at Lompoc Federal Penitentiary.
We Want Our Freedom Anyway — Mutulu Shakur (1997)
1997 essay by Mutulu Shakur, published by the Anarchist Black Cross Federation, on the politics of freedom and continued resistance from prison.