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...
by Pam Bailey | Dec 2, 2023
The late, legendary Hall of Famer Paul Robeson once said, “You can limit my mobility, but you can’t limit my mentality.” Leonard Bishop is a testament to this truth. Although his body is languishing for a third decade in the bowels of the American carceral...
by Pam Bailey | Nov 10, 2023
We can go through our whole life without knowing we were traumatized or how to speak up to get the help we need. Not knowing or understanding my trauma affected me in ways I’m only now starting to understand. I went from being on the honor roll and scoring...
