By Bernard E. Harcourt I would be sitting in a special locked isolation cell, sometimes even with the lock welded shut, and there would be no one to talk to – just the sound of screaming voices. And because there… Continue Reading
Episode 4: George Jackson and Revolutionary Prison Writings with Paul Redd Please join us here on SoundCloud for the full conversation with Paul Redd: https://soundcloud.com/user-832065376/harcourt-podcast-4-paul-redd-draft-v2-21422-338-pm Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-4-george-jackson-and-revolutionary-prison/id1472428475?i=1000551097978 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3nRPkH0GSnZ8M22bdLtp5e
By Albert Woodfox In 1969 I was sentenced to fifty years in prison. I couldn’t begin to comprehend spending that much time in prison. I immediately began to plot my escape. When the opportunity presented itself, that’s what I… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels, and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me. For the first four years I studied nothing but economics and military ideas. I met black guerrillas […] We… Continue Reading
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
By Bernard E. Harcourt I turned my cell into a university, a hall of debate, a law school. Reading was my salvation…. I first gravitated to books and authors that dealt with politics and race—George Jackson, Frantz Fanon,… Continue Reading