Dice Raw releases an 18-minute mini-doc that looks at the epidemic of Black incarceration in America through interviews with formerly incarcerated brothers from his hometown of Philly. The doc, as well as Dice’s new album of the same name, both take inspiration from Michelle Alxander’s accla... Read more...
Michael Vick continues to give back to the community in a big way. The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback is in Washington D.C. speaking to Rep. John Lewis from Georgia about a program called Team Freedom Outreach The program relies on Christian volunteers to help mentor incarcerated youth and ... Read more...
Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one... Read more...
Canadian talk show host George Stroumboulopoulos got Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino to sound off on the drug war Wed. Dec. 19. Here's the transcript, watch the video below: "This whole thing of the War on Drugs and the mass incarceration that has happened pretty much for the las... Read more...
Cedrico Green can’t exactly remember how many times he went back and forth to juvenile. When asked to venture a guess he says, “Maybe 30.” He was put on probation by a youth court judge for getting into a fight when he was in eighth grade. Thereafter, any of Green’s school-... Read more...
The “pipeline” framework, as I argue in Race, Gender, and the “School to Prison Pipeline”: Expanding Our Discussion to Include Black Girls, was largely developed from the conditions and experiences of males. As such, it may limit our ability to see the ways in which black girls are affected... Read more...
This is alarming... Their are black males in Milwaukee? Only about 45-percent of working age black men in Metro Milwaukee had jobs in 2010. That's according to a study of census data by UW-Milwaukee. A report released yesterday showed that the area's black male employment was 53-percent just... Read more...
When it's 17-year-old Eric Gant's turn to testify today at an Oakland legislative hearing on the health and welfare of California's minority men and boys, he will ask for a safe way to get to school. "Students deserve a safe path to school, like an adult wants a safe path to work," Gant, wh... Read more...
Intro by Mark Taylor Essay by Mumia The commentary/letter by Mumia, below, needs a brief explanation. Mumia sent this to me for my students at Princeton Theological Seminary, in a class I teach, “Incarnation and Incarcerated Bodies.” He wrote it while in “the hole” (Restricted Housing U... Read more...