A short biography of Martin Sostre, a revolutionary anarchist influential in the 1960s-70s prison movement. First published on Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin's facebook page and then republished by Black Rose ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Community members gathered at the space on Jefferson where a former Afro Asian Book Shop bookstore once stood to support Geraldine Pointer and Martin Sostre. At this store was where ...

From his solitary cell at Auburn prison in 1972, political prisoner Martin Sostre warned that “if Attica fell to us in a matter of hours. . . so… ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A rally in Niagara Square will call for the exoneration of a couple whose families say they were wrongfully convicted. On July 15, 1965, Geraldine Pointer and Martin Sostre were ...

In this Podcast Extra, NPR correspondent Joe Shapiro recalls the life and legacy of Martin Sostre, someone he first reported on as a student in the 1970s. Sostre died a free man in 2015. But he spent ...

The lawsuits he filed from behind bars in the 1960s and ’70s challenging harsh prison conditions laid the groundwork for prisoners to defend their rights even today. Overlooked is a series of ...

Examining the case of Martin Sostre a black Puerto Rican bookstore owner in Buffalo New York who was framed on drug possession charges in 1967 and sentenced to prison this film shows how the American ...

In this profound work, poet Webster (Wail Song) traces his genealogy like a thread through a labyrinthine racial history of America. Webster positions himself as “the grandchild Continue reading » ...

The abbreviated story of Martin Sostre, a revolutionary prisoner who challenged and changed the American prison system from his cell in solitary... How One Inmate Changed The Prison System From The ...