WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2015 1:00 – 3:00PM Guest Speakers: Barry Campbell Special Assistant to President and CEO Fortune Society Topic: Struggles of Reentry Hosted by The Community Service Society of New York (CSS) 105 East 22nd Street at the corner
May 21st – Education on Both Sides of the Wall The 2014-15 PRI Occasional Series on Reentry Research will highlight issues raised by the National Academy of Sciences’ groundbreaking report, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Causes and Consequences. Please
On Friday May 15th, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger issued a statement on divestment from both companies that operate private prisons and from fossil fuels. President Bollinger wrote the following: “On March 31, 2015, ACSRI resolved to recommend to the... READ MORE
Civil rights legislation in the 1960s promised greater racial equality in a variety of domains including education, economic opportunity, and voting. Yet those same laws were coupled with exclusions from surveys used to gauge their effects, thereby affecting both statistical
The Crown Heights Community Mediation Center is gearing up for their annual Arts to End Violence festival! There is a block party (Kingston Ave Fest) on May 16th and gallery opening on May 21st. All are welcome at both events! For the gallery show, they are
On Saturday May 16th – the Youth Action Council (our semester-long program for youth ages 15 to 18 who have an incarcerated parent) will host their third annual RIDE FOR RIGHTS bike-a-thon to raise awareness about the rights and experiences
Event: 7 – 9 pm FREE and open to all, must RSVP to attend Dinner: 6-7 pm (Optional, $25, payable only by check) The Narrative, Health and Social Justice Seminar is excited to announce its 2nd annual Symposium on Arts, Health
At the Soledad Prison in California, a warden, a white prisoner convicted of murder and a black former gang member struggle to move beyond the stark reality of America’s locked down racial order. Challenged for the first time by a
The Just Arts Lab is Launching this summer and we are currently looking for participants and peer mentors. Systems of policing, mass incarceration of youth, and the school to prison pipeline are social justice issues that directly affect young people... READ MORE
MoAAC in cooperation with NYS OGS, ACP, Jr Art Gallery, Presents: Black Lives Matter Photography Exhibit (photo I.D. required for admission) Curator – Jewel Shears, Co-Curator’s – Jimbe’ Carroll & Azim Thomas Featuring Photographers: Douglas L. Adams, Jr., Kenneth Bazemore, Howard Cash,
