The Visionary Freedom Fund (VFF) seeks to ensure that Black, Brown, and Indigenous (BIPOC) youth impacted by the youth justice system on the frontlines have the resources, capacities, infrastructure, and relationships they need to develop and implement inspiring long-term, visionary change in their communities.
Our host Reginald Dwayne Betts chops it up with Jason Reynolds, a beloved author of young adult fiction and poetry. Jason has won all the prizes that dope writers get, including the Kirkus Prize and the Coretta Scott King Honor. In the inaugural episode of The Freedom Takes, Dwayne and Jason discuss their common roots in PG County, Maryland; the importance of literature in the lives of young people; and Jason’s book Long Way Down, of which the Million Book Project has sent 900 copies to readers in juvenile detention centers across the country.
"The Writing On The Wall" art installation projects writings by incarcerated people onto the sides of buildings.
A 2020 Netflix series in which celebrity readers share children's books by Black authors to spark kid-friendly conversations about empathy, equality, self-love, and antiracism.
The culmination of a two-year project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, Illuminating the Darkness: Our Carceral Landscape brings together a diverse selection of work made by twenty-five artists for exhibition at the UCF Art Gallery. Associated online programming includes a For Freedoms Town Hall and panel discussion with system-impacted artists and activists.
The John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity (the Institute) will offer a Collective Leadership Supervisor Training entirely online this fall.
The Project Rebound Consortium is launching new programs at additional CSU campuses. One of these programs is at CSU Northridge, one of the largest universities in the state, which is hiring a Program Coordinator to help found their program. Please share this opportunity throughout your networks, particularly with individuals who share these values, have an incarceration experience themselves, and have overcome barriers similar to the population that Project Rebound serves.
Mississippi Freedom Winter addresses the humanitarian crisis occurring throughout Mississippi's prisons and immigrant detention centers. Their Study and Struggle program is the first phase of an ongoing project to organize against incarceration and criminalization in Mississippi through four months of political education and community building.
The application period is open now until August 11, 2020.
College Behind Bars (originally on PBS) is now streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime and can be sent to your program.
The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project newsletter, The Warbler, is available to anyone interested in being on their weekly distribution list.
Download this printable Yoga and meditation manual developed for people who are currently incarcerated by Yoga Behind Bars (YBB).
Having a parent in prison is an adverse childhood experience, a childhood trauma that can lead to poor health and wellbeing as an adult. Yet, these children can thrive if they build resilience.
The program offers emerging writers an opportunity to have their work read by published poets and authors. The contest is open now and runs until August 30, 2020.
The Education Trust is conducting research, and inviting survey participation, which will center on the voices of Black borrowers.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites proposals from organizations and programs in the United States and its territories that focus on the future of higher learning for incarcerated students.
Support for postsecondary institutions and community partners to remove barriers to: food, housing, childcare, mental health services, transportation, or digital access for postsecondary students.
Report on data collected showing the cost of policing around the United States.
The Covid Collection, a one-time literary journal publication, seeks compelling prose, poetry and art from incarcerated writers residing in a state or federal facility.
The Marshall Project is collecting data on COVID-19 infections in state and federal prisons.
