Cover story
Bound by Our Roots: Red Brick Clay, Greens and Yams
Resurrecting our Afrikan Foremuthas by Nnennaya Amuchie, Esq., LSPC Supervising Attorney The 1929 Aba Women’s War is one of the largest women-led resistance movements against European imperialism. In 1928, rumors spread throughout southeastern Nigeria that the British would begin counting and imposing taxes on women to fund World War I. To these women, census counting…
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Features
The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution Granted American Women the Right to Vote
by Angel Garza, CSP-Corcoran Carrie Chapman Catt devoted most of her life to the expansion of women’s rights nationwide and around the world and is recognized as one of the key leaders of the American women’s suffrage movement. Her political strategies and organizational skills contributed to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S.…
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Who Holds the Power? A Conversation with Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price
by Tanisha Cannon, Ed.D., LSPC Managing Director I have organized, lived, laughed, loved, and prayed with people who have been irreparably harmed by prosecutors by way of prosecutorial misconduct, over zealousness and or outright negligence. Today I sit with families who have lost decades because someone in a DA’s office decided to stack charges and…
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Black Radical Feminisms
by Ghostwrite Mike, Carceral Studies Journalism Guild, Valley State Prison The 1971 essay that opens volume three, issue number four of The Black Scholar, titled “The Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves,” presented a monumental offering penned by Angela Y. Davis while on trial and housed at the Marin County jail. Articulating the…
The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution Granted American Women the Right to Vote
by Angel Garza, CSP-Corcoran Carrie Chapman Catt devoted most of her life to the expansion of women’s rights nationwide and around the world and is recognized as one of the key leaders of the American women’s suffrage movement. Her political strategies and organizational skills contributed to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S.…
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NO WARNING SHOTS: Art, Recovery, and Reform at CSP-Solano
by Dallas Winston, CSP-Solano I have spent the better part of my life perpetuating a cycle that I now recognize myself to be a product of. I acknowledge this not to play the victim, but rather to retake my grip on the narrative. In this way, I am able to better navigate the trajectory in…
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California Prison System
by Arthur Williams, III, Pelican Bay State Prison Editors Note: In October 2025, we received this powerful comic from artist Arthur Williams III, who is currently incarcerated at Pelican Bay State Prison. Given the recent completion of the new $239 million dollar facility at San Quentin prison, this is particularly relevant for publication right now.…
