COINTELPRO Continues: Dr. Mutulu Shakur

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Notes

1 See Professor Umoja’s biography, “Straight Ahead: A Brief Political Biography of Dr. Mutulu Shakur.”

2 See interview with prison colleagues.

3 See Professor Umoja’s biography, “Straight Ahead: A Brief Political Biography of Dr. Mutulu Shakur,” in this special issue for a deeper discussion of the issue or responsibility and remorse.

4 United States v. Shakur, 1990 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16219, 1990 WL 200646 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 28, 1990).

5 FBI Memorandum from Headquarters to All Special Agents in Charge, August 25, 1967.

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Susan Rosenberg

Susan Rosenberg is a human rights and prisoners’ rights advocate, adjunct lecturer, award-winning writer, speaker and a former political prisoner. Her memoir, An American Radical, details her 16+ years in federal prison and her conclusions about her prison experience. She was released from prison in 2001 through executive clemency by then President Bill Clinton. Susan has worked in nonprofit communications on human rights and in defense of prisoners and the abolition of prisons. She is a member of the Family and Friends of Dr. Mutulu Shakur, and involved in other political prisoner release efforts. She is an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College, in the Women and Gender studies Department. She is a former founding member of the Board of Ladies of Hope Ministries, a women and girls reentry organization. She is on the board of advisors of Alliance for Families for Justice. She is a member of the PEN prison writing committee at PEN America. She is a contributor to the revised edition of the PEN America Prisoners Writers Handbook, “The Sentences That Create Us,” published through Haymarket Books. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and continues to write.

Linda Evans

Linda Evans was an anti-imperialist political prisoner for over 16 years, imprisoned for actions to end apartheid and white supremacy, police killings, and US imperialism around the world. Now she is working to end Life Without Parole sentencing in California and to win Language Justice rights for people speaking Spanish and indigenous languages in Sonoma County.