Police and Prisons

“As many as 200,000 people could die from COVID-19 in the U.S.”⁠—double the current government estimate⁠—if there are no measures taken to stop the rampant COVID-19 pandemic sweeping through the colonial U.S. prison system, according to a recent study by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). 

Editor’s note: Bub Myers from the Uhuru Furniture store in Philadelphia has been locked down in the clutches of the colonial prison system in Pennsylvania for over a year for a minor parole violation with no trial or conviction.

This is the accusation in a lawsuit filed by three inmates in a Michigan prison where ten people have died of COVID-19 as of April 13, 2020.

We stand in full unity with the family of Dana Fletcher in this fight for justice.

While in prison, I suffered some of the most inhumane conditions anywhere.

Allegations against “Black leader” Rev. Al Sharpton of being a possible informant for the FBI with intent to provide information forthe alleged attempted entrapment of exiled former Black Panther Assata Shakur,brings to light the complex relationship between the FBI and Black Informants.

Our Spear makes clear the position of the African People’s Socialist Party on the question of this colonial prison system.

The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations has issued a call for black people to descend on Washington, DC this fall for a two-day mobilization demanding an end to U.S. military and economic aggression in Africa and African communities worldwide.

CLEARWATER, FL—On July 19, 2018, a 24-year-old African woman named Britany Jacobs waited in the parking lot of a convenience store while her boyfriend, Markeis McGlockton, and five-year-old son, Markeis Jr. were inside.