Paul Redd has been long known for his legal activism within prison. In the 35 years that he spent incarcerated across multiple Security Housing Units in California, he was known to be one of the top jailhouse lawyers. Paul spent… Continue Reading
Albert Woodfox was born in 1947 in New Orleans. A committed activist in prison, he remains so today, speaking to a wide array of audiences, including the Innocence Project, Harvard, Yale, and other universities, the National Lawyers Guild, as well as… Continue Reading
Joy James is the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College. James is author of: Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals; Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture. Her… Continue Reading
Darryl Robertson is a Harlem-based writer, and J.I.E. alumnus at Columbia University. His research interests include hip-hop, and Black resistance. He is especially interested in understanding how the Black Panther Party serviced Black communities during the late-1960s. His work has… Continue Reading
Bernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for… Continue Reading