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Inspiring Leadership: 100 Prisoner Book Publishing Literacy Program!
Inspiring Leadership: 100 Prisoner Book Publishing Literacy Program!
OUR 2023 SCHOLARSHIP LAUREATE
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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...
The Importance of Radical Activism in 2025 By Isabella Cain
The Importance of Radical Activism in 2025 By Isabella Cain In 1964, Malcolm X stood before the Organization of Afro-American Unity and declared: “You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says...
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?
Michael L. McKuin: Fighting Injustice Through Science Fiction and Horror
Michael L. McKuin: Fighting Injustice Through Science Fiction and Horror By Michael McKuin and Laurie Tang For some, writing is a hobby, a means of creative expression. But for Michael L. McKuin, author of Kill the Bastard, writing is a lifeline, using it as a weapon...
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….
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…
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...
The Pen v. the Sword
Opportunities Are Created!
The People with the Worst Backgrounds Build the Best Futures: What Malcolm X Taught Me About Redemption, Resilience, and Revolution By Ivan Kilgore
The People with the Worst Backgrounds Build the Best Futures: What Malcolm X Taught Me About Redemption, Resilience, and Revolution By Ivan Kilgore When Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz said, "The people with the worst backgrounds build the best futures," I felt those words in my...
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...
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.
Can You See Yourself With It?
By Mandrel Miller G29534 P.O. Box 1902 Tehachapi, CA 93581 In 2006, I was in the Wayside facility of the LA County Jail fighting at three-strike case for robbery when I met this OG pimp named “Dark Gable.” Dark Gable was in his early forties, about 6' 2” with dark...
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...
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!
FACING DEATH PENALTY, AGNOSTIC STARTS TO PRAY–RADIO INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR IVAN KILGORE.
FACING DEATH PENALTY, AGNOSTIC STARTS TO PRAY–RADIO INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR IVAN KILGORE.
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...
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...
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