“The End of Rage: A Black Panther in Prison Makes a Reckoning: The Story of Russell Maroon Shoatz”
Plough Quarterly Magazine, Sept. 15, 2021
By Ashley Lucas, co-director of the CSP’s Documenting Prison Education and Arts project
A deeply reported account of the impact of almost a half-century of incarceration, including 22 consecutive years of solitary confinement, on Russell Maroon Shoatz and his family members, based on interviews and other correspondence and documents. Russell Shoatz, a Black radical convicted in 1972 for the politically motivated shooting of two white police officers in Philadelphia, tells his story of confronting racism and state violence on the streets and in prison, narrated by Lucas as a haunting and moving saga of rage and reconciliation.
Read the full story here.
