Abolition for the People

What Abolition Looks Like, From the Panthers to the People

Calls to defund prisons and policing is neither new nor hopelessly utopian

Robin D. G. Kelley
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8 min readOct 26, 2020

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This article is part of Abolition for the People, a series brought to you by a partnership between Kaepernick Publishing and LEVEL, a Medium publication for and about the

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Robin D. G. Kelley
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Robin D. G. Kelley is Prof. of History at UCLA. His books include Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. https://history.ucla.edu/faculty/robin-kelley