"Don't worry about making those prisons and jails better, there's a whole lot of infrastructure that has to get built to end mass incarceration." [Click Dezeen to read more.]

NEW COVID-19 #ViralMonologue from '24 Hour Plays' written by Shaka Senghor performed by Andrè De Shields    

The prison art exhibit, titled “Restoration,” will be presented online later this summer as part of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts fellows program in which Scott was chosen to participate. Providing an opportunity for families of the incarcerated and the public to engage in dialogue about America’s prisons, the discussion comes at a critical time, as the virus courses unabated through California’s system. Like thousands of others with spouses and family members on the inside, Scott’s living in a wait-and-see, day-by-day situation, unsure when the next call will come. [Click San Francisco Examiner to read more.]

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Dr. Matt Willis provides an update on the COVID-19 San Quentin outbreak, expanded virtual options for mental health services, more ideas for a close-to-home holiday weekend, a facial covering reminder, service impact updates for the holiday weekend, and updated COVID-19 data.

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The coronavirus pandemic has transformed the US education system overnight. The antiracist rebellion in the streets has shown a light on the deep racial inequality in America. 

We know that cities around the country have engaged in surveillance tactics against Black Lives Matter protesters. In Boston, Memphis and New York City, we're seeing emails and other documents that show that they have used social media to surveil Black Lives Matter Activists, and the FBI is using surveillance tactics to identify and surveil what they've deemed "Black identity extremists," people who are generally engaging in free speech, First Amendment protected activity, including black activists who are part of the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Both per capita and in total numbers, the U.S. jails more people than China, Russia, or any other nation — and this falls disproportionately on black Americans and other people of color. While crime rates around the country have dropped, incarceration rates are only going up. If we do nothing, one in four black men, one in six Latinos, and one in seventeen white men born today will end up in jail.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader of the “Lost Cause,” an intellectual movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American Civil War. They were women from elite antebellum families that used their social and political clout to fundraise and pressure local governments to erect monuments that memorialized Confederate heroes. They also formed textbook review committees that monitored what Southern schoolchildren learned about the war. Their influential work with children created a lasting memory of the Confederate cause, and those generations grew up to be the segregationists of the Jim Crow Era in the South.

Jon Stewart discusses the removal of Confederate statues, the politicization of the pandemic, what gives him hope and his new film, “Irresistible.” #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #JonStewart

Tip sits down for a necessary conversation with educator & social activist Jane Elliott. Tip and Jane discuss the current state of race relations from over policing to deficiencies in education and the tells the truth about the origins of white fragility in America. The creator of the Blue eyes/ Brown eyes experiment also talks about systemic changes that are needed to bring about an end to racism.

Chris Cooper’s encounter with a white woman went viral after he asked her to put a leash on her dog and she called the police claiming he was an “African-American man threatening my life.”