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With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly…

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A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable Answer

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