Kevin Rashid Johnson (born October 3, 1971 in Richmond, VA) is a revolutionary, writer, social activist, and founding member and Minister of Defense of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, and inmate in the Indiana Department of Corrections.[1][2][3][4] Johnson, a former drug dealer, was convicted of murder in 1990, and sentenced to life in prison.[1][5] He maintains that he is innocent and was wrongfully convicted.[1] Johnson was charged with inciting a riot on January 10, 2018, after helping to organize a prison strike centered in Florida, and after publishing a related article on the anarchist website It's Going Down.. .: Kevin Rashid Johnson