"We Are Striking a Blow at the State:" The Alabama Prisoners Work Strike
In order to continue to exploit Black prisoner labor and profit from it, Thomas E. Kilby, the governor of Alabama, ordered the construction of the Kilby prison and even named it after himself.
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Southern politics
How Prisons Turn Traumatized Women Into Unpaid Crisis Workers
Lynne does this work without compensation. She receives no sentence reduction, no credits toward parole consideration. The prison extracts her labor and her psychological well-being while offering nothing in return except the brittle satisfaction of knowing she may have kept someone alive for one more shift.
Arts & Soul
To Whom This May Concern: Jill Scott's Sonic Geography of Black Life
Everywhere we have ever made music, which is to say everywhere we have ever hoped to survive, lives inside this record.
Race & Place
Deadly adulterants have proliferated as drug-war policing escalates in Baltimore
The fact that law enforcement has essentially been given carte blanche to continue its assault on drug users in the name of public safety is not only nonsensical but incredibly dangerous.
Essays & Letters
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