News & Events
	• AUGUST 2005 Read "Youth Voices in Lockdown", an anthology of creative writing by the students at the Sprungs section of Island Academy - Rikers Island • APRIL 2005 Download a transcript of our April 2005 conference, "Criminally Unjust: Young People and the Crisis of Mass Incarceration" • OCTOBER 2004 Final Count of the Collision Between Us and Them: Hip-Hop, Prison and the New Democracy A panel of scholars, artists and activists talking about the real under-stories of mass political disengagement and electoral disenfranchisment. Featuring ACJP Coordinator Laurent Alfred, Piper Anderson, Bryonn Bain, Yvonne Bynoe, Leith Mullings, Greg Tate and Immortal Technique. • APRIL 11-12, 2003 Watch video from our Africana Studies Against Criminal Injustice conference • APRIL 11-12, 2003 Criminal Injustice in African American and Black Diaspora Communities To Be Focus of Conference at Columbia University • NOVEMBER 12, 2003 Chanting Down the Walls: Using the Arts to Combat America’s Prison Crisis A symposium featuring a keynote address by Dhoruba Bin Wahad, former Black Panther Party leader and US political prisoner; and a panel discussion featuring: M-1 (of dead prez), Bryonn Bain, Kamau Franklin and Tania Cuevas Martinez.
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