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Black Prison Theoreticians: Prison Notebooks

George Jackson (1941-1971)
George Jackson (1941-1971)

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What happens when Black people are locked up in an American prison and are transformed into revolutionary intellectuals whose ideas fly out of the confinement of their bodies? One answer, an important one, is revealed in the lives of Yaki, George, and Mumia: revolutionary theoreticians in the prisons camps. We can continue to learn from them.

James "Yaki" Sayles (aka Atiba Shana) (1948 - 2008)

George Jackson (1941 - 1971)

Mumia Abu Jamal (1954 - )

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