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Omar Epps and Desmond Meade Demand Prison Reform

Actor, Omar Epps, and voting rights activist, Desmond Meade, demand prison reform and call out the corruption that has made incarceration a for-profit game in the new short film, Unbreaking America: Justice for Sale produced by RepresentUs. NEW YORK – America locks up more people than any nation in the world: a horrifying 2.3 million. […]

Vice President Harris Lays Out a Bold Vision and Pledges Unity in White House Ellipse Speech

Dogon Village Books Celebrates Drug Sentencing Reform with Release of Ebook Version Urban Saga “SnitchCraft”

Atlanta, GA – When author Edrea Davis debuted her fictional saga, “SnitchCraft” in hardcover back in 2007, everyone from readers to activists to academics took note of this creative approach to advocacy. Davis cunningly fused hip-hop with a civil rights agenda to offer a glimpse into the corrupt environment created by the use of informants […]

In Prison Reform, Money Trumps Civil Rights

By Michelle Alexander (NYTimes.com) – The legal scholar Derrick A. Bell foresaw that mass incarceration, like earlier systems of racial control, would continue to exist as long as it served the perceived interests of white elites. Thirty years of civil rights litigation and advocacy have failed to slow the pace of a racially biased drug […]

‘Lockdown for liberty!’ exposes prison conditions

By Charlene Muhammad, FinalCall.com – Fed up with bad food, unjust treatment, poor education and inadequate health care, thousands of inmates in Georgia’s prison system staged “Lockdown for Liberty,” a peaceful protest on Dec. 9, according to activists. The Black, White, and Latino inmates from Augusta, Baldwin, Hancock, Hays, Macon, Smith, and Telfair State Prisons […]