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Solidarity Protests Continue
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Different forms of prisoner resistance and repression continue as long as the prison system stands. The biggest recent instance of prisoner unrest/repression in Michigan was at Kinross CF in the Upper…
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Attica’s Legacy
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Over the course of the last week we’ve been looking at the Long Attica Revolt and Orisanmi Burton’s book Tip of the Spear. We’ve tried to give a glimpse of the…
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Attica as a Gender War
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series The fantasy of the hypermasculine, sexually potent Black man is a cornerstone of Amerikkkan whiteness, laid by the long history of lynching in this backward country. After being hanged, the victim’s…
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The Attica Commune
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Over the course of the Long Attica Revolt, imprisoned comrades confronted the dehumanizing conditions and horrific treatment of the carceral system. Tip of the Spear encourages us to understand that paired…
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The Long Attica revolt
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Between Oct 1970 and the Attica Rebellion Sept 1971 the carceral system of NY was shaken by a series of escalating rebellions where incarcerated rebels fought back, captured hostages, communicated revolutionary…
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Setting the Stage for Revolt: The Context of the Long Attica Revolt
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Orisanmi Burton refers to prison as war. And prisons were only one facet of the ongoing war during this period. The Long Attica Revolt took place against a backdrop of international…
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Exploring the Long Attica Revolt
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series For the final week of our 28 Days of Black Liberation program we will be looking at the Long Attica Revolt and the role of prisoners in the Black Liberation Struggle…
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Housing Then and Now – From 1947-2025
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series In the roughly 80 years since the Hickman case, not much has changed. We read the descriptions of housing conditions in the poor, Black neighborhoods of Chicago in the 1940s –…
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Ohio Street Trial
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series The inquest into the ten deaths on Ohio Street would involve five public hearings, only two of which would take place before the murder trial of James Hickman, but the horrendous…
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Courts are not Instruments of Justice
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Banks and real estate & insurance companies had so influenced the political power in the city of Chicago (as elsewhere) that David Coleman, despite merely being a small landlord with no…