Episode Details

This episode features readings and discussion from the 2026 Black August issue of In the Belly, a prisoner-led abolitionist magazine. The hosts discuss pieces by Pierre "Polo" Pinson and Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, alongside poetry by Assata Shakur and a poem featured in Judas and the Black Messiah. Together, these works raise questions about revolution, religion, spirituality, negotiation, reproductive labor, political education, and what it means to build a liberated world rather than simply seek reforms within the existing one.

This episode is an invitation to study history, question the promises of the present, and think seriously about what revolutionary practice can look like in our own lives.

Contact

Smart Communications/PA-DOC
Randy Carter #HV2925
SCI Chester
PO Box 33028
St. Petersburg, FL 33733

Kevin Rashid Johnson 1007485

Keen Mountain Correctional Center

3402 Kennel Gap Rd

Oakwood, VA 24631

Chapters

00:00 looong intro

18:05 Rhinoceros Womane by Assata shakur

21:07 What is itb

24:06 Phantom of liberty by polo

31:56 reflection

48:45 God Is Here by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson

52:42 Reflection

01:06:14 Poem from Judas and the Black Messiah, by actor Dominique Fishback as Akua Njeri

01:07:50 Reflection and outro

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