All posts tagged "Mass Incarceration"
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On Moving Forward
Removing the threat of prison is also likely to bolster odds that victims and their families come forward and challenge abusers. The prospect of losing...
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Feminists We Love: Marissa Alexander
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Alisa Bierria Today is the first day of Standing Our Ground Week of Action (July 25 – August 1, 2014) in Jacksonville,...
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Mother’s Day: Love and Tears
The beginning of May signals the end of the school year, the start of spring, and of course Mother’s Day. As with most American holidays,...
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Confined Writers and Their Criminal Writings
By Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell Last month, The New York Times reported a discovery made in Rochester, New York about what we now know as...
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Feminists We Love: Andrea J. Ritchie
Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian police misconduct attorney and organizer who has engaged in extensive research, writing, litigation, organizing and advocacy on profiling, policing, and...
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*Pretty Sparkly Things: A Black Girl’s Encounter with the Prison Industrial Complex
I love clothes. I always have. As a black girl coming of age in the early 1990s, I was up on all the adornment trends:...
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Sunny Days?: Sesame Street, Prisons and the Politics of Justice
With Nelson Mandela’s funeral on the television, Sammy, who is 6, turned to me with a question that quickly grabbed my attention. Having already discussed...
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Long Distance Revolutionary: An Intergenerational Conversation
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Clyde Gumbs and Jared Gumbs This summer I attended a screening of Prison Radio’s film about Mumia Abu-Jamal, Long Distance Revolutionary. Mumia...
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The Making of Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary
By Noelle Hanrahan Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary is an inspiring portrait of a man whom many consider America’s most famous political prisoner – a man whose...
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How to Build a Prison (a poem)
By Quincy Scott Jones for Philadelphia, USA 1. Always hated that building and never knew why The one right before the on-ramp for...
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“Fire in the Skies”: Introduction to the Mumia and Mass Incarceration Forum
On December 9, 1981, journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested and later charged and convicted for murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. The prosecution’s...
