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Fundraising To Publish 100 Prisoner Books!
Please assist us to publish 100 prisoner books in 100 days! There are many people in prison who truly want to give back to their communities. As part of our Writers' Room Workshop we have created just such an opportunity for those who are incarcerated to be able to...
The Power of Labels: Murder & Society
one day he’s doing a life sentence deemed a threat to public safety, and then the next, “poof!” With a mere change of the law he is no longer a threat and is free after almost three decades in prison
Four Gut Wrenching Radio Interviews on the Rhetoric of Prison Rehabilitation in California.
Listen to four gut-wrenching radio interviews on the rhetoric of prison rehabilitation by United Black Family Scholarship Foundation founder Ivan Kilgore. Hosted on Prison radio. Click on the following links:...
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...
Hidden Voices: 100 Prisoner Book Publishing Project!
As the founder of the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation, it is with great humility that I announce we are now accepting manuscript submissions from incarcerated authors for publication. Our objective is to select 100 prisoner written books to publish. There...
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...
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.
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...
Make Cell Phones Legal In Prison
California and a number of other states really need to get with the program in terms of allowing inmates to use cell phones. They are already in prisons “legally” across the nation. See link!
Lessons Learned Through Life, Service & Building People By Timmy Young
Lessons Learned Through Life, Service & Building People By Timmy Young Healing does not begin in buildings. It begins in people. I’ve learned through experience that communities don’t collapse overnight, and they don’t heal overnight either. Healing starts when...
Reclaiming Our Humanity: Community, Culture, and Healing
Reclaiming Our Humanity: Community, Culture, and Healing By Ivan Kilgore For much of my younger life, I believed crime was primarily the result of individual choices. I accepted the common narrative that if people simply made better decisions, our communities would...
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...
Three corrections Officers Under Arrest for the Brutal, Unprovoked Attack on Multiple Prisoners.
Paula Lehman-Ewing paula@reimaginingtherevolution.com Published 12:10 Central January 10, 2023 JEFFERSON COUNTY, Alabama — Three...
Writing For Social Justice: An Intimate Conversation On the Impact of Mass Incarceration & Criminal Justice Reform
Here, we have those closest to the problem and those seeking to better understand and change our country’s position as the world’s largest incarcerator, both invested with the power to shape the narrative….
Oklahoman imprisoned in California Seeks to Give Back locally from his Prison Cell.
“My hope is that this donation will become a beacon of hope that will inspire everyone to strive for new horizons, and to never allow current circumstances to limit the capacity to give back,” Kilgore said.
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.
The Truth They Don’t Want You to See: How CDCR Fuels Fear to Feed the Prison Industrial Complex
The Truth They Don't Want You to See: How CDCR Fuels Fear to Feed the Prison Industrial Complex By Ivan Kilgore It never fails to amaze me how easily people accept the narratives handed to them by the media and those in power—especially when it comes to prisons. Few...
A Question on The Common Misconceptions Of Prison.
Why is it people think that prison is a place where you learn to make good choices, pick good friends, be polite and respectful all the time? Reply: Prison isn't where you learn to make 'good decisions.' It is a place you wind up warehoused as you await the day you...
LIFERS WITH OPTIMISTIC PROGRESS
Truth as told by those in power has been formatted to fit into the scheme of their agenda, which makes it a product propaganda. Truth as told by the powerless is a truth unscathed by such distortion, which makes it a reality. As such, the truth as told by the...
Information On How To Effectively Recruit Skilled Volunteers For Your Non-Profit Organization
If you’re building a nonprofit organization and you want or need consulting or development of such a program, please contact us.