Kuwasi Balagoon was a defendant in the Panther 21 case in the late sixties, and a member of the Black Liberation Army. Captured and convicted of various crimes against the State, he spent much of the 1970s in prison, escaping twice. After each escape, he went underground and resumed BLA activity. He was captured in December 1981, charged with participating in an armoured truck expropriation in West Nyack, New York, on October 21 of that year, an action in which two police officers and a money courier were killed. Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, he died of pneumocystis carninii pneumonia, an AIDS-related illness, on December 13, 1986.

Writings By Kuwasi Balagoon
(available online)

Anarchy can't fight alone
Brink's Trial Closing Statement
The Continuing Appeal of Anti-Imperialism
Your Honor (poetry)
 

Writings About Kuwasi Balagoon
(available online)

Ashanti Omowali on Kuwasi Balagoon
Kazembe Balagun: Kuwasi at 60
"In Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon" by Marilyn Buck
"Remember the Fallen" by Judy Clark