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Nov 12, 2024 | 
publicbooks.org | Orisanmi Burton |Megan Cummins
September 29, 2024To Whom it May Concern,The purpose of this letter is to address the intensifying effort on the part of prison officials to prevent incarcerated people from reading my book—Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (The University of California Press, 2023).
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
thefunambulist.net | Orisanmi Burton
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MILLENNIALS ARE KILLING CAPITALISM AND ORISANMI BURTONIn 2017, we interviewed Orisanmi Burton for our 12th issue, Racialized Incarceration (July-Aug 2017). Six years later, he published his research in an important book entitled Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
proteanmag.com | Orisanmi Burton
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt is now available from University of California Press. ♦♦♦
Attica casts a large shadow over the history of the American prison-industrial-complex; it is at once an illustration of the carceral system’s murderous logic of domination as well as an illustration of the indomitable will of those caught in its grasp.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
counterpunch.org | Orisanmi Burton
Orisanmi Burton’s new book, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, he explores what he terms the Long Attica Revolt, a criminalized tradition of Black radicalism that propelled rebellions in New York prisons during the 1970s.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
inquest.org | Orisanmi Burton
Dominant narratives frame the Attica Rebellion at New York’s Attica Prison as having been crushed after September 13, 1971, when a state assault force opened fire on the prison, killing twenty-nine rebels and ten prison guards. Yet the events of those five days are only a piece of a protracted struggle, which preceded the Attica Rebellion and endured after the state-orchestrated massacre. During the 1970s, organizers of what I term the “Long Attica Revolt” asserted a diverse array of demands.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Joaqlin Estus |Chris Walker |Kelly Hayes |Orisanmi Burton
Department of Interior regulations ban tribes from re-applying for federal recognition if they were once denied. The rule is in the process of getting changed but too slowly in the view of a Washington D.C. District Court judge. Judge Amy Berman Jackson has told the department it has until the end of August to move on to the next step in rule-making. Three years ago, Jackson said the rule banning re-petitions was not justified.
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Jul 23, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Mary Hudetz |Jen Deerinwater |Tyler Walicek |Orisanmi Burton
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Two decades ago, an anthropology professor at the University of Utah asked the National Science Foundation to fund research on Native American ancestors to determine when the cultivations of crops like corn first became prevalent in their cultures.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
therealnews.com | Orisanmi Burton
This story originally appeared in Truthout on June 22, 2023. Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission. The documentary record of “mind control” experiments conducted by the United States and other governments during the Cold War is just the tip of the iceberg, and our collective ignorance is by design.
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Jun 22, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Orisanmi Burton
The documentary record of “mind control” experiments conducted by the United States and other governments during the Cold War is just the tip of the iceberg, and our collective ignorance is by design. In early 1973, as the fallout from the Watergate scandal exposed the need for greater congressional oversight of U.S. intelligence agencies, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ordered the destruction of all documents related to MK Ultra.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
ucpress.edu | Orisanmi Burton
About the BookAbout the AuthorReviewsTable of ContentsMediaRelated BooksAbout the BookA radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons. Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders.
