Cuts to Americorps funding hit formerly incarcerated volunteers especially hard.
First Person
Posted inHigher Ed in Prisons
First Person: ‘They ban books by Black authors. Then they tell us to celebrate Black History Month.’
As state legislatures and boards of regents debate whose histories deserve telling, those of us behind bars have long faced explicit bans on texts that challenge dominant narratives or examine racial and gender justice.
Posted inHigher Ed in Prisons
I’ve always been a storyteller. But my professors in prison taught me how to write.
How a formerly incarcerated writer ended up on the stage at Comic-Con.