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Archives for February 2021
San Quentin college students defend Ethics Bowl championship against UC Santa Cruz (before COVID)
Student debate teams from the College Program at San Quentin and the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) matched wits once again on the prison … [Read more...]
RE:STORE JUSTICE: National Gun Violence Survivors week
In February we acknowledge National Gun Violence Survivors week. I would guess that many of you, like me, are survivors of Gun Violence. It’s a club … [Read more...]
The case of Von Staich with incarcerated people at SQ
A California appeals court has ordered San Quentin to significantly reduce the prison’s population and take steps to protect the incarcerated and … [Read more...]
Pope Francis seeks end to capital punishment
Vatican City — Pope Francis has brought the Catholic Church’s stance on capital punishment and life imprisonment to the end of a centuries-long … [Read more...]
Nina Simone: legendary singer, songwriter and civil rights activist
Born Nina Simone Catherine Waymon, Nina was a singer, songwriter and a civil rights activist. She recorded more than 40 albums between 1947 and … [Read more...]
Geto Boys in a league of their own in the hip hop genre
“This year Halloween fell on a weekend / Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treating,” sang the rap group Geto Boys on their hit single “Mind Playing … [Read more...]
Bell Hooks – professor, feminist, and social activist
bell hooks (Sept. 1952-Present) born Gloria Jean Watkins, is an author, professor, feminist and social activist. Her pen name bell hooks comes from … [Read more...]
1995’s The Million Man March in Washington, D.C.
On October 16, 1995 more than a million Black men gather at the nation’s Capitol Hill and Mall in Washington DC for “A Day of Atonement.” This past … [Read more...]
Letter To The Editor, James King, February 2021
To My San Quentin Community: This has been one hell of a year. Under the easiest of times, prisons are a hard place to live. This year it became … [Read more...]
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