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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.
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...
From Prison Cells to the State Capitol: How Incarcerated Voices Reshape Nonprofit Advocacy By Ivan Kilgore
From Prison Cells to the State Capitol: How Incarcerated Voices Reshape Nonprofit Advocacy By Ivan Kilgore An inside-out perspective on lived experience, storytelling, and nonprofit advocacy For more than 26 years, I have lived inside a system that has often tried to...
Systems Can Change Through Storytelling By Timmy Young
Systems Can Change Through Storytelling By Timmy Young Systems do not change simply because people recognize problems. Systems change when people see themselves inside the solution. Storytelling creates that bridge. It connects information to emotion, vision 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
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...
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...
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...
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…
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.
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....
Book Review: BANANAS: OBSERVATIONS, FIXATIONS, AND DECLARATIONS, FROM A PROFOUNDLY DISORDERED MIND.
BANANAS: OBSERVATIONS, FIXATIONS, AND DECLARATIONS, FROM A PROFOUNDLY DISORDERED
MIND.
OUR 2023 SCHOLARSHIP LAUREATE
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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...
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
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.
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.
13 Effective Bullet Points to Building Your Social Media Presence…
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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…
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...