Prisons on Fire

George Jackson, Attica & Black Liberation

Freedom Archives

Thirty years ago, America's prisons burned. Here's how, why, and what happened. Who were the Attica Brothers? Why did 1,500 Black, Puerto Rican and white prisoners seize control of the New York...

BAD

The Autobiography of James Carr

James Carr

"When I was nine years old I burned down my school."--from the text. James Carr started fighting when he was very young, and never gave up. A child prodigy of crime in the streets of the L.A....

Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy DVD

Arundhati Roy

"Empire is on the move, and Democracy is its sly new war cry. Democracy, home-delivered to your doorstep by daisy cutters. Death is a small price for people to pay for the privilege of sampling...

Robert F. Williams

Self Respect, Self Defense, & Self Determination

Robert F. Williams

Robert Williams is one of the most important figures in the history of the black freedom movement... Thanks to the Freedom Archives and the work of his widow Mabel Williams, his story will be...

What We Want, What We Believe

The Black Panther Party Library

Roz Payne

"The invaluable Movement documentaries Newsreel produced furthered the work of the Black Panther Party and now provide the essential visual record of the Party's early days. This new DVD...

Abolition Now!

Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex

CR-10 Publications Collective

Today, over seven million people live under the control of U.S. jail, prison, probation, or parole systems—the vast majority of them people of color and young people. Between 2000 and 2007,...

Waiting for Lightning to Strike

The Fundamentals of Black Politics

Kevin Alexander Gray

The year that saw an African-American run for the presidency as the nominee of the Democratic Party for the first time in U.S. history also witnessed a truly remarkable silence—one that was...

Truth and Revolution

A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986

Michael Staudenmaier

In the 1970s and 1980s, as the movements of the sixties receded from view, the revolutionary left in the United States went through a series of profound political, demographic, and cultural...

Truth and Revolution e-book

A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986

Michael Staudenmaier

In the 1970s and 1980s, as the movements of the sixties receded from view, the revolutionary left in the United States went through a series of profound political, demographic, and cultural...