by Robert “Fleetwood” Bowden, LSPC In-Custody CoordinatorI was just a little Black boy in Greensboro, North Carolina when the world around me began to shift and shake with the weight of the Civil Rights Movement. I didn’t understand it—not really. But I felt it, like thunder rolling on the horizon long before the storm reaches your doorstep.What I did understand was the sound … [Read more...] about The Day I Became a Revolutionary: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What They Took, What We Build: Friendsgiving & the Fight for Our Families
by Taqwaa Bonner, LSPC Housing Advocate On November 21, 2025, Legal Services For Prisoners With Children and All Of Us Or None facilitated a panel on family policing during our annual Friendsgiving celebration. Two of the four panelists were directly affected by CPS as youth. They emphasized that the trauma from being taken away from their families still has a negative … [Read more...] about What They Took, What We Build: Friendsgiving & the Fight for Our Families
A Conversation with Dorsey Nunn and Assata Shakur • 1996
In 1996, AOUON co-founder and LSPC Executive Director Emeritus Dorsey Nunn interviewed Assata Shakur in Cuba. Read the transcript (lightly edited for brevity and clarity) below or watch the interview. Dorsey: So my first question would be, what political ideology do you embrace at this time? Assata: Well that's a wide question but essentially I'm an African woman who … [Read more...] about A Conversation with Dorsey Nunn and Assata Shakur • 1996
RAZOR WIRE PLANTATIONS: America’s Addiction to Slavery & Sadistic Cruelty
by Troy T. Thomas, California Health Care FacilityAn Enslaved Individual. The United States is predicated upon permanent disparities and inequities in life expectancy, mortality rates, education gaps, incarceration, economic solvency, and counter-development burdened upon Africans domestically and internationally. Founded in enslavement, these disparities were facilitated by … [Read more...] about RAZOR WIRE PLANTATIONS: America’s Addiction to Slavery & Sadistic Cruelty
Freedom Time: Dancing Through Prison Walls
How does one embody freedom while caged, confined, and policed? For some, the answer comes from dance. In prison, dancing can provide a transformative reclamation of bodily autonomy. This potential has been realized with Dancing Through Prison Walls (DPW), a California-based dance and performance project whose mission is to "dance with, choreograph with, and tell stories within … [Read more...] about Freedom Time: Dancing Through Prison Walls
