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Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin “Rashid ” Johnson featuring exchanges with an Outlaw (No Shipping)

By: UPROAR Admin · April 4, 2026
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Book cover for “Defying the Tomb,” featuring a black panther emerging from darkness with revolutionary imagery on a red background.

Original price was: $15.00.Current price is: $10.00.

Rashid learned that several boxes of Defying the Tomb were available through his publisher, and asked that we sell them to raise funds for UPROAR. Buying this book helps strengthen organizing with prisoners’ loved ones and supports our work documenting and exposing prison abuse.

This listing is for in-person pickup (no shipping): pay online, then show your confirmation screen and take a copy from the display.

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Defying the Tomb — fundraiser book by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Fundraiser price: $10 

This book is written by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, a longtime prison organizer and writer. We are selling a limited number of copies as a fundraiser to support UPROAR / Advocates of Change and our work with incarcerated people and their loved ones.

If you’re buying from a shop display (no shipping)

This checkout is designed for pickup at a participating coffee shop / bookstore display.

How it works:

  1. Scan the QR code (or open this page) and complete checkout.
  2. When your payment is complete, you’ll see a confirmation screen / receipt.
  3. Show that confirmation to staff and take one copy from the stack.

Important: This item is no shipping. If you need a book mailed to you, use the shipping option on our main store page (if available).

What your purchase supports

Your $10 purchase helps fund:

  • loved-ones support and casework
  • documentation and follow-up on prison abuse
  • printing + outreach materials
  • communication and organizing infrastructure

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Follow the author’s odyssey from lumpen drug dealer to prisoner, to revolutionary New Afrikan, a teacher and mentor, one of a new generation rising of prison intellectuals. This book consists primarily of letters between Rashid and Outlaw, another revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner, smuggled between the segregation wing and general population over a period of months. These comrades educate themselves—and us as well—on Marxism and Maoism, the Five-Percenters, Dialectical Materialism, Dead Prez, Capitalism, Racism, Imperialism, Class Struggle, Revolutionary Nationalism, New Afrikan Independence, Psychology, and a host of other subjects, as they grapple with how to promote revolutionary consciousness in the most hostile of environments.

Rashid has been in prison for twenty years—the past eighteen of which in segregation (solitary confinement). Shortly after this correspondence between himself and Outlaw, he and his comrade Shaka Sankofa Zulu founded the New Afrikan Black Panther Party–Prison Chapter. The NABPP-PC has since developed branches in various prisons across the u$ empire and has its own newsletter, Right On! A number of Rashid’s essays written as Minister of Defense of the NABPP-PC are also included in this book. For more about Rashid, including links to his writings available online, please visit his website at http://www.rashidmod.com

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