by Pam Bailey | Dec 18, 2022
During my son’s first birthday celebration, I was seated in a loathsome, cramped and filthy holding cell in the D.C. Superior Court, on trial to fight charges of armed kidnapping and first-degree murder of a street associate. I can vaguely recall hearing the lead...
by Pam Bailey | Oct 30, 2022
Note from Pam Bailey, co-founder of More Than Our Crimes: One day, I asked Gezo what his passion is, and this was his response: Passion? I guess that could be what I mostly muse about. I daydream mostly about my manumission. I dream of being with my family. I remember...
by Pam Bailey | Oct 22, 2022
*** I grew up in Ward 8 (Barry Farms), DC; lived there all of my life – with the exception of 1998, when my mother put a down payment on a house in Fairfax, VA, and I stayed there for a few months. She told me she wanted a change for me and my brothers. I have five...
by Pam Bailey | Oct 21, 2022
I am the product of a loving marriage between my African-American father and Korean mother. (My father gave my sister and me African names: My sister’s is Sheba and mine is from an Ashanti king. But both of our middle names are Korean: Gueong. I added “El” – which...
by Pam Bailey | Aug 16, 2022
Editor’s note: The letter below was written to family, friends and other supporters by Muhammad Abdul-Rahman, a candidate for early release thanks to Washington, DC’s Second Look Amendment Act. Eighty degrees, warm it up for meFinally free, found the God in meAnd I...
