By Ivan Calaff History is the wisest teacher, not only because it lays out a roadmap for how we should deal with our present circumstances, but because it also allows us to ask better questions looking into the future. Speaking… Continue Reading
By Jindu Obiofuma First, I would like to hold space for the intersecting interests and values in which abolition is rooted. Because naming things is important, I would like to name for you all that abolition is deeply anti-capitalist, transnational,… Continue Reading
By Chris Washburne Freedom Trap is a band that was formed in 2018 as part of Carnegie Hall’s Musical Connections Program. Comprised for formerly incarcerated men from Sing Sing Federal Prison and facilitated by Columbia Professor Chris Washburne, the band… Continue Reading
By The Abolition Collective This summer we created a non-hierarchical collective to interrogate and educate ourselves about the current abolitionist movement. Although we started in April, we now have 250 members from across the nation. Our collective is composed of… Continue Reading
By Alexis Hoag Abolition is a well-developed theoretical framework that gives us the tools to reimagine the systems we currently have in place. Instead of systems that perpetuate anti-Black racism and profit off the subjugation of economically marginalized people, abolition… Continue Reading
By Bruce Western In times and in communities in which incarceration has become pervasive, relations between local residents and state officials can be contentious. And state institutions come to lack legitimacy. The institutions lack legitimacy because their stated objectives of… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt After a brief period of Reconstruction following the Civil War (1866-1877), the conservative white supremacist forces in this country began to rebuild, brick-by-brick, a social system of racial hierarchy and oppression comparable to American slavery during… Continue Reading