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.
Penny For Your Thoughts
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.
PRISON SLAVE MOVEMENT–AN ABOLITIONIST CRITIQUE
Not Worker, But Chattel 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 of civil society, the positionality of the...
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....
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...
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...
What You Can Learn From the Incarcerated if You’d Stop, Think About it & Answer A Few Questions…
It’s time to change it up, find another way – it’s time to listen to those that we are advocating for.
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...
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….
13 Effective Bullet Points to Building Your Social Media Presence…
Increase growth of you and/or your organization’s social media
Socialism vs. Capitalism: Food For Thought!
It done got real UBF fam! Tomorrow (Sunday, August 18th ) our most recent addition to the organization, Cedric O'Bannon, informed he will be conducting a video interview with the following individuals for an international conference on socialism. On behalf of the...
Oklahoman imprisoned in California Seeks to Give Back locally from his Prison Cell.
“My hope is that this donation will become a beacon of hope that will inspire everyone to strive for new horizons, and to never allow current circumstances to limit the capacity to give back,” Kilgore said.
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