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New Documents Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
07 Jul 2023
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Black Agenda Radio · New Documents Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners

Orisanmi Burton is an assistant professor at American University’s Department of Anthropology. Black Agenda Report recently published an article he wrote in Truthout entitled, New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners. His new book, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt, will be out in October 2023.

CIA
Medical Apartheid
Black Mass Incarceration
Indigenous

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