MCF Book Club features Tip of the Spear by Dr. Orisanmi Burton

Watch the launch of the 2024 Marguerite Casey Foundation Book Club: Readings for a Liberated Future virtual series. This month, the MCF Book Club features the long-awaited book "Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt", written by MCF Freedom Scholar Dr. Orisanmi Burton.

Tip of the Spear is a powerful book that challenges readers to think better, more precisely, and more historically about how imprisoned people draw on the Black radical tradition for strength, inspiration, and strategy in the ongoing struggle for autonomy, liberation, and revolution.

Join MCF president and CEO Dr. Carmen Rojas for a powerful conversation with author and MCF Freedom Scholar Dr. Orisanmi Burton, and Emani Davis, founder and executive director of the Omowale Project. This virtual book club conversation delves into the Long Attica Revolt, exposing prisons as battlegrounds of hidden warfare within the U.S. Tune in to better understand the criminalized tradition of Black radicalism in the 1970s that led to rebellions in New York prisons, and the coordinated tactics of violence, isolation, propaganda, reform, and more used by state actors for prison pacification and the elimination of Black resistance. You can join the MCF Book Club at CaseyGrants.org/BookClub.