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R.E.B.U.I.L.D.: Community Reinvestment Program
R.E.B.U.I.L.D. Program Projected Launch Date: 01/21 Program Summary: Our program R.E.B.U.I.L.D. "Reinvests in Every...
A Talk To Teachers
I had to realize when I was very young that I was none of those things I was told I was. I was not, for example, happy. I never touched a watermelon for all kinds of reasons that had been invented by white people, and I knew enough about life by this time to understand that whatever you invent, whatever you project, is you!
A Letter 2 Myself Twenty Years Young!
Often we find ourselves confronted with situations that, at times, provoke us to think desperate measures must be taken despite facing drastic consequences. During these troublesome times our options seem unattainable for whatever reasons. So we pay homage to choices...
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...
Home Coming: Returning Citizens & the Impact of Incarceration
"After years of waiting and counting down, it is almost time for the gates on the Iron House to open and your loved one to step through and come home. Your greatest dream and your worse nightmare are about to be realized...yes, it is your loved one and no, you don't...
University of California, Santa Cruz Student Interviews UBF Founder Ivan Kilgore on the Limitations of Prison Education
You’re shuffled through a sliding chain link fence onto a small patch of aging concrete enclosed by more fence. The height of it is daunting and as you look up, you notice more razor wire topping it. You peer to your right and see the tall octagonal structure with the...
Open the Gates, Smash the State: A Snippet of Contemporary Prison Movements
On August 21st, 1971, George Jackson, best-selling author and founding member of the Black Guerilla Family was shot to death in the San Quentin prison yard. Prison officials said Jackson had been trying to escape from the isolation unit where he was housed. Three...
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:...
Watch “Prisoner May Day Solidarity – Ivan Kilgore Statement in Oakland” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/xswrzsJUmU8
Inspiration: A Voice from the Inside
Inspiration: A Voice from the Inside A life-changing conversation with the incarcerated author, philanthropist, and activist Ivan Kilgore as he takes us on the journey of the inspirational story behind his recently published book, Murder, Mayhem & Magnificence: A...
Picasso At Her Finest
At 17, she would become the youngest student accepted into her dream school as an animation major. Since, she has worked hard making the Provost list two years in a row, maintaining above 3.8 GPA.
Alabama Department of Corrections on Lockdown/ Incarcerated Activist Robert Earl Council Transported to University of Alabama at Birmington Hospital
Alabama Department of Corrections on Lockdown/ Incarcerated Activist Robert Earl Council Transported to University of Alabama at Birmington Hospital
ARE WE TRULY BEING EDUCATED IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES? OR IS IT SIMPLY LEADING THE HORSE BY THE BIT TO FEED ANOTHER BUSTLING CAPITALIST INDUSTRY?
…the problems before our communities will not disappear until we up and take control of our systems of education, economy, law enforcement, and other social and economic factors that contribute to our community development. If we continue to run from this truth then...
From Incarceration to Critical Consciousness By Ivan Kilgore
From Incarceration to Critical Consciousness: A Speech By Ivan Kilgore Good evening. I speak to you not simply as someone who has studied the criminal legal system, but as someone who has lived inside it for nearly thirty years. Almost three decades of incarceration,...
UBF Productions
Projected Launch Date: February 2021 Program Summary: UBF Productions Is a multimedia, Publishing/production subsidiary operating under the organization’s nonprofit charter to specifically collect and edit, publish and produce, promote, and disseminate and distribute...
How Prison Has Effected My Family & Community
By Ivan Kilgore —May 2019 (The following is an excerpt from my latest book Domestic Genocide: The Institutionalization of Society.) I begin by informing you that institutions affect people in both positive and negative ways. Arguably, the positive aspect of prisons in...
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...
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….
Give Me Free! A Critique on Contemporary Prison Movements.
By Ivan Kilgore, June 2019 I'd say the Free Alabama Movement had a lot to do with many of the reforms in the state of Alabama that we are seeing in the news recently. Namely, the resending of the Habitual Offender Act, which lead to a sentence of LWOP. For those of...