By Darryl Robertson He wrapped his dark chocolate-hued, sooty, sweaty, muscular arm tightly around my neck before saying “give it up.” Seconds seemed to tick slowly, allowing my mind to catch up to what my body was already prepared for.… Continue Reading
By Paul Redd The four main representatives of the Short Corridor Collective at Pelican Bay State Prison read the Bobby Sands book about the prison hunger strikes in Ireland, and that’s where people got the idea that we needed to… Continue Reading
View all information and the video of the Revolution 7/13 seminar on “George Jackson, Albert Woodfox, Paul Redd, and Revolutionary Prison Writing and Praxis” with Albert Woodfox, Paul Redd, Darryl Robertson, Joy James, and Bernard E. Harcourt here: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/revolution1313/7-13/ News Articles about… Continue Reading
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