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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,...
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.
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...
Nonprofit Coaching & Leadership Training Conference 2020, Guest speaker Glenn E. Martin, who has raised over $75 million dollars in the nonprofit sector
Glenn E. Martin, who has raised over $75 million dollars in the nonprofit sector and currently is the CEO of GEMtrainers, LLC, delivers a successful formula to raise money…
An Inspiration! Excerpt from Our Founder’s book Mayhem, Murder & Magnificence: A Memoir
…the social death of the African American has always been part of the American Experience
The Pedagogy of Systemic Oppression
The Pedagogy of Systemic Oppression By Isabella Cain, UBFSF Media & Marketing Director Education is often presented as a pathway to opportunity: a means of gaining knowledge, securing employment, entering higher education, or improving one’s economic...
Democracy Behind Bars
Democracy Behind Bars By Kenthy Porter, Founder and Executive Director Democracy Beyond Bars Political education is at the heart of Democracy Beyond Bars' origin, advocacy and continued work to abolish the Prison industrial Complex. Founded in 2023 by incarcerated...
Book Review: BANANAS: OBSERVATIONS, FIXATIONS, AND DECLARATIONS, FROM A PROFOUNDLY DISORDERED MIND.
BANANAS: OBSERVATIONS, FIXATIONS, AND DECLARATIONS, FROM A PROFOUNDLY DISORDERED
MIND.
A Decade of Criminal Justice Reform: Have We Moved The Needle?
Just how much has changed over the course of the past decade in terms of Criminal Justice Reform and abolition efforts?
UBF Founder Ivan Kilgore’s McCoy v. Lousisana Reply Brief to the California Supreme Court
Petitioner “communicated to the [trial] court and counsel his opposition to presenting any other defense other than a defense of self-defense under the theory of the doctrine of transferred intent. Whereas, the trial court would “allow[] counsel to usurp control of an issue within [Petitioner’s] sole prerogative”
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.
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...
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….
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...
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.
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...
9 Reasons to Reexamine Your Views on So-Called Racism – By bfthames
9 Reasons to Reexamine Your Views on So-Called Racism 1) IT'S NOT REAL Racism exists entirely in our minds, no matter how much we want it to be real. This isn't a history lesson, but a few tidbits to chew on might be helpful. Most of us know that dark skin...
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.
REBUILDING THE COMMUNITY FROM WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
With the assistance of friends and family in 2014 I was able to incorporate the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation--a not-for-profit organization dedicated to rebuilding disadvantaged communities from within the community....
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...