Arts in Corrections, xvi
Aryan Brotherhood, 35, 106
Ashker, Todd, 106
Aspiration, 84
assimilation, xxxiii–xxxiv, 143–144
Atlanta
Black youth in, 89–90
Collier Heights, 87–88
HBCUs in, 90
Olympic Games, 93–94
protests in, 95
sports teams, 80
Autonomous Infrastructure Mission (AIM), 106–111, 114–121
Avenal State Prison, 60
B
Bacon, Nathaniel, 19
Bacon’s Rebellion, 19, 20, 140
bail, 8–9
Baldwin, James, xxxii
bandele, asha, 132
#BankBlack movement, 81, 82, 85, 88
Bankhead Seafood, 80
banking system, 82–85
Bank of America, 26, 82, 85
Ban the Box, 3, 135, 144
Berkeley, William, 19
BET News, 81
Biden, Joe, 137–138
Bigger Than Life, xxiii, 78
Birts, Ali, 1–4, 8, 74
Black Americans. See also racism; slavery
assimilation and, xxxiii–xxxiv
buying power of, 97–98
under correctional control, 5
disenfranchisement and, xxx, xxxv, xxxviii, 5, 136, 138
racial wealth gap and, 24–26, 83
violence against, 5, 140
Black Codes, xxxviii, 23
Black feminism, 144
Black Guerrilla Family, 105, 106