Rebuilding the Community from within the Community
August Message From Our Founder Some two decades ago, I entered the California prison system as an unsuspecting 26 year old man unaware of the challenges that lay ahead. Indeed, as the years went by I would go through the fire: race riots, the SHU, lockdowns, etc....
Slavery is Abolished... By Max Parthas Slavery never ended. Not a solitary day has passed where it but for a single second suddenly ceased. It wasn't solved, it evolved from slaves on plantations to involve caged convicts being leased. Or, warehousing bodies for...
July Message From Our Founder By Ivan Kilgore What is the 4th of July to America's incarcerated, homeless, black, and poor? I have been incarcerated 24 years. Prior to my imprisonment, I recall how my family, friends, and I celebrated this occasion. As a child, like...
Juneteenth and Modern-Day Slavery By Isabella Cain Does slavery persist in modern-day society? In short, yes. American society would love to say that institutionalized slavery was outlawed in 1865 when Congress passed the 13th Amendment. However, there is one clause...
June Message From Our Founder By Ivan Kilgore As the nation celebrates Juneteenth this month, it pains me to know and continue to experience what remains of the dehumanizing culture that sprung from the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Without question, slavery lives with...
What in society would exist if not for a radical thought? Would there be vision, invention, technology, or medicine? What advancements would the world bear witness to or be without? What nations would we claim as citizens if not for the radical thought of nation...
My journey is one of a transformative educational process that occurred in American prisons. In 1995, I was 21 years-old. I had barely graduated high school two years prior with a 1.75 G.P.A. By the time 1995 came around, I was sitting in the Seminole County Jail in...
Malcolm's Family Malcolm X, also known as EI-Hajj Malik EI-Shabazz, was originally born Malcolm Little, in Omaha, Nebraska to Earl and Louis Little on May 19, 1925. Very few details are known about Malcolm's parents except that they were early followers of Marcus...
March 2024 Message From Our Founder By Ivan Kilgore In 2014, with the assistance of family and friends, we incorporated the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation (UBFSF). Prior to this, I had spent seven years attempting to persuade my older cousin to sign on as...
March 2024 R.E.B.U.I.L.D. Highlights By Cheyenne Hughes, R.E.B.U.I.LD. Volunteer & Service Coordinator As a 4th year Political Science major and being able to understand head on and be allowed the privilege to take courses that discuss the concepts of...
Unmasked Benevolence: Unveiling the Systemic Racism of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex By Glenn E Martin In the modern narrative of philanthropy, the non-profit industrial complex often presents itself as a bastion of altruism, a beacon of hope in a world beset by...
The New Civil Rights Movement for Our Times: Ending Mass Incarceration By Zebulon Miletsky, Ph.D. On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I’m proud to talk about the Media & Marketing Internship programs we have undertaken at Stony Brook University. Martin Luther...