by Pam Bailey | Jan 24, 2025
Freedom…the thing I’ve yearned for…prayed for…and that has consumed my being for the past 30-something years of incarceration…was briefly within my grasp. No longer was it just a yearning – an elusive prayer. Rather than a faint hope, it was so close, so possible it...
by Pam Bailey | Jul 1, 2024
“The most revolutionary act Black men can make is to deal psychoanalytically with their childhoods.” Scholar/writer, Bell Hooks I have this recurring fantasy in which I am happily married to my teenage love, a brilliant, funny and gorgeous African American...
by Pam Bailey | May 12, 2024
Editor’s note: When More Than Our Crimes wanted to try to motivate our network members from Washington, DC, to vote despite their disengagement from the political system, we turned to Da’Quan Nelson. A talented “urban writer,” he knows how to...
by Pam Bailey | May 9, 2024
When I first entered jail, I was painfully aware of my gayness. I was told this environment operated 20 to 30 years in the past – not a safe place for a Black gay male. Of course, this fear was not exactly new. Everyone in the LGBTQ+ community, out or not, lives...
by Pam Bailey | Feb 24, 2024
Let me introduce myself. I have several names: The name on my birth certificate is Damian Kareem Abdul Jabbar Cunningham Herndon. But by the time I started grade school, my mother had shortened it to Darnel Vincent Herndon Jr. (after my father). My nickname as a young...
