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New York Lawmakers Introducing Bill to Limit Rap Lyrics as Evidence in Criminal Trials
Rolling Stone, November 16, 2021

It’s Never Too Late to Go to College and Rewrite Your Story
The New York Times, December 7, 2021

He Says He’s No Murderer. That’s Why He’s Still in Prison.
The New York Times, December 2, 2021




Who is Julius Jones? Death sentence for Oklahoma prisoner commuted hours before scheduled execution.
The Washington Post, November 18, 2021


The Supreme Court’s Growing Hostility to Arguments of Death Row Inmates
The New York Times, November 9, 2021

Montoyae Dontae Sharpe Pardoned After 24 Years in Prison for Murder He Did Not Commit
Daily Beast, November 13, 2021

A memoir of murder, family and law, but at a careful distance
The Washington Post, November 5, 2021


Reasonable Doubt: Two jurors voted not to convict him. He’s still in prison 24 years later.
Al Jazeera, October 19, 2021


50 Years:The Kerner Commission, Mass Incarceration & College-in-Prison (Virtual)
Bard Prison Initiative, October 27, 2021 at 12pm EST

Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.
ProPublica, October 8, 2021



Black Technoscience: Ruha Benjamin in conversation with Timnit Gebru and Beth Coleman (Virtual)
Society for the Social Studies (4S) Plenary, Friday, October 8 at 3:00pm EST

Dispatch From Rikers Island: ‘It Looks Like a Slave Ship in There’
Curbed, October 5, 2021