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Information On How To Effectively Recruit Skilled Volunteers For Your Non-Profit Organization
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IDEOLOGY! KING VS. MALCOLM–TRUTH AND REALITY
King seemingly handicapped the struggle for Black Americans by limiting his educational intake to that which was offered by America’s perverse educational system. White institutions programmed him, his ideas, his values, and misgivings of America’s capitalist infrastructure.
HOW WE ORGANIZE WITH OUR INCARCERATED LEADERS.
HOW WE ORGANIZE WITH OUR INCARCERATED LEADERS. By Ivan Kilgore. People often ask me, "How can you be incarcerated and yet accomplish all you have as the founder of a successful nonprofit organization?" My response, PEOPLE! Sure, determination and a passion for...
Frequently Asked Questions About Our Prisoner Book Publishing Program
Through both our publishing and internship program we hope to help share the powerful stories of those incarcerated as well as provide students and the incarcerated the opportunity to give back to their communities while developing their skill sets.
Wrongfully Convicted Murderer Develops & Implements Successful Student Volunteer Program
Controlling the narrative as to who the incarcerated are and their potential is a critical to defining how society perceives and interacts with the incarcerated and how they themselves see themselves. They are not the worse decision of their lives.
#Free California Movement: A Letter to Prison Reform Organizations
…if we are to invest in the notion of rehabilitation and entrust American institutions, then we must demand that CDCR release our loved ones, including those serving LWOP and death sentences.
Inspiration: A Life Born of Necessity
Going from prison yards to a university campus is quite the contrast of a life once lived; however, the brightness of his future blinds all doubts from his view.
What You Can Learn From the Incarcerated if You’d Stop, Think About it & Answer A Few Questions…
It’s time to change it up, find another way – it’s time to listen to those that we are advocating for.
What Happened to California’s Prison Movement?
Today, some seven years after the historic California hunger strikes, the general attitude on the yard is not that of resistance but compliance…
Cryin’ Brian, Queer Bait & Vanilla Tears….
Empathy should be a staple of the human experience, and evolution indicates that normally, it is. But, for the criminal mind, empathy is an impediment, not an empowerment.
OUR 2023 SCHOLARSHIP LAUREATE
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PRISON SLAVE MOVEMENT–A N!##AS NIGHTMARE
In the face of adversity Not Worker, But N!##A Chattel! The F$%#?? By Ivan Kilgore Whereas the positionality of the worker (whether a factory worker demanding a monetary wage, an immigrant, or a white woman demanding a social wage) gestures toward the reconfiguration...
The Other side Of the Glass
Family members talk and chat, girlfriends talk to boyfriend’s, kids run wild jumping and running in the background over the feet of people they don't know or care about. A baby hollers, all mothers turn and make sure their child is okay; some complimenting the mother...
This Month’s Prison Reading List Favorite: Can You See Yourself With It?
How much I paid for the cinnamon roll has nothing to do with how much I’m willing to sell it for.
Trump’s Executive Order on Critical Race Theory and “Patriotic Education” By Zebulon Miletsky, PhD
Claims that Trump or the Executive Office of the President has canceled Black History Month appear to stem from a post from Mark Zaid, a prominent lawyer in Washington, D.C., who has represented federal government employees and whistleblowers. In an X post on Jan. 23,...
UBF Juvenile Mentoring Program
In order for tomorrow's youth to become leaders and not statistics, they require the support of the greater community. With all the controversy...
How Can Someone In Prison Inspire Me to be Free & Live Life to the Fullest?
I began to realize that my footprints were going to be washed away in the tide of life because I had not gave due consideration to how I was living it. In fact, I was not living at all. I existed and was struggling to survive. What prison did was gave me time to take inventory, a hard look, at the fact that I had become a statistic, a number with little value amongst my community and peers. It was then that I became determined to change not only my plight but those of others.
If Only I had the Power and Possessed the Key
By C.G. If only I had the power to rise from the graves, all the buried slaves, who were raped, maimed and murdered. If I could only give them life, locked inside metal enslavements, with their key in my possession as they stood before me, I would set them all free –...
Street Certified
As an incarcerated author, activist, and founder of the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation, I cannot begin to express how elated I was to host our first Nonprofit Coaching & Leadership Training event this past February in Oklahoma City. Indeed, it was a...
Why Philanthropy Must Start Investing in the People Behind Prison Bars By Glenn E. Martin
Why Philanthropy Must Start Investing in the People Behind Prison Bars By Glenn E. Martin Walk into almost any prison in America and, if you know where to look, you’ll find something philanthropy has been searching for: talent. We lock up some of America’s best and...