United Black Family Scholarship Foundation

I was put in contact with Ivan Kilgore, the founder of the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation, during my last year in college, where I was chasing my passion for criminal justice reform through research. I was immediately impressed and intrigued by Mr....

If you have the skills of a writing editor, and would like to take part in bringing to life the stories of our voiceless ones - those hidden from society, you can become their voice by assisting with the publication of their untold stories in the UBF's “100 Prisoner...

“Allow me to reintroduce myself,” writes Ivan Kilgore, an inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento. “Within these walls … I am a socially dead person whose existence has no legitimacy whatsoever.” Now [45], Kilgore began serving his life-sentence in 2000. Today,...

Do you or someone you know consider yourself to be a serious filmmaker or writer? Would you like to have your work considered for production or publication and distribution through our growing social network? If so, please email or mail a physical or digital copy to...

The United Black Family Scholarship Foundation is now accepting manuscript submissions from incarcerated authors for publication. We accept all genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short stories, and essay compilations, graphic novels, etc., which comment upon, or...