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 continuity between her own jailed … [Read more...] about Black Radical Feminisms
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Black Arts Excellence: André Holland and Yale’s Justice for Everybody Stage The Brothers Size at Valley State Prison
By Dominick J. Porter & Ghostwrite Mike, Carceral Studies Journalism Guild, Valley State Prison The last time a free world theater production of any kind was performed before a confined audience in California was 1957, nearly seventy years ago (Waiting For Godot, San Quentin). Before actor André Holland, star of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin … [Read more...] about Black Arts Excellence: André Holland and Yale’s Justice for Everybody Stage The Brothers Size at Valley State Prison
Poem: The Dangerous Few
by Ghostwrite Mike, Valley State Prison How do the dangerous few, earn, the right of return?Turn the page—act our age—work, but not be slaves?Not be slaves…Forever purgatoried, tell yo story, text it through the ether—eitherWe record the history, or they deceive the reader.See, we are praxis, for those who wield powerFor the feel of it. Blessed, if you could deal with … [Read more...] about Poem: The Dangerous Few
