Garrett Felber in Conversation With Dean Spade

Garrett Felber’s A Continuous Struggle (AK Press) is a political biography of one of the most important — if since forgotten — revolutionary figures of the twentieth century in the United States. Martin Sostre (1923–2015) was a Black Puerto Rican from East Harlem who became a politicized prisoner and jailhouse lawyer, winning cases in the early 1960s that helped secure the constitutional rights of incarcerated people. He opened one of the country’s first radical Black bookstores and was scapegoated and framed by police and the FBI following [...]