Dhoruba Bin Wahad was jailed for 19 years in the FBI's illegal COINTELPRO project

As dates reflect and refract memories even before and after the arrival of an anniversary, or the knowledge of the memory, I want to remind us about the history of political prisoners in the United States—specifically, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, and ask what you may know about the 20th-century history of using prisons to silence political dissent against the status quo. — Read the rest