Are Prisons Obsolete? Binding:Paperback and forgiveness--one that's both tragic

and forgiveness--one that's both tragic and poignant in its tender ferocity

horror and the paranormal

Zeinab Badawi's sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent's extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective

Erin Sharkey considers Benjamin Banneker's 1795 almanac

Are Prisons Obsolete? Binding:Paperback and forgiveness--one that's both tragicWith 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 notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly, the