Dear comrades and supporters of Rashid,
We have an important update: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson has been returned from South Carolina to Virginia custody.
This is a major victory. Thank you to everyone who called, emailed, shared, and kept pressure on … Read the rest
After several years of informal talks between leading members of both groups, and upon the persistent advice of movement elders including veterans of the original Black Panther Party, the New Afrikan Black Panther Party and the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther … Read the rest
The most beautiful scenes
In nature
Are nurtured in me
Rhythms of drums
Work in me
Moving me
Like a memory
Programmed from times
Forgotten
Before I was even begotten
Wisdom from ancestors
Taught in
Places far away
Nature’s incenses… Read the rest
A stolen people
With a stolen past
Made into a lowly caste
A separate class
Kidnapped from
Our homeland
By slavers
Made captive labor
In a no-man’s land
Our histories
Disrupted
Our cultures corrupted
Excluded from Amerikkka
For generations
Kept … Read the rest
Bear witness
To Amerika’s fear
When niggas unafraid
Of pulling triggers draw near
It’s clear
That power in their eyes
Means keeping people of color
Divided and terrorized
This is why
By means open and subliminal
They keep a state … Read the rest
Not an accident of nature
Nor a mere symptom
But a creature made
In the image of the system
A snake with
A lethal bite
A selfish worshipper of wealth
With a ravishing appetite
Time and again condemned to die… Read the rest
During November 2025, a transgender prisoner, Michael Hailey aka Lilith, was the victim of yet another official lynching in Virginia’s remote prisons.
The murder was covered up until members of UPROAR (Uniting Prisoners’ Relatives Organizing Against Repression) pieced the case … Read the rest
UPROAR (Uniting Prisoners’ Relatives Organizing Against Repression) has launched a campaign to remove attack dogs from Virginia’s prisons. These animals (euphemistically called working dogs and patrol dogs by Va prison officials), have been used as weapons of terror and violence … Read the rest
… Read the rest“The prison-industrial complex is not only a mechanism to convert public tax money into profits for private corporations, it is an essential element of neo-liberal capitalism. It serves two purposes. One to neutralize and contain huge segments of potentially rebellious
The New Afrikan Black Panther Party (NABPP) was cofounded in 2005 by two prisoners, Kevin “Rashid” Johnson and Shaka Zulu aka Zulu Sharod, and transitioned into an outside party in 2019. As with all revolutionary organizations, the NABPP went through … Read the rest
The Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party began as a prison-based organization aspiring to become a mass based revolutionary party. From the outset, we understood that as long as we remained a prison group, we would be unable to fully implement … Read the rest