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Social media is undermining the power of protest by framing it as "cringe," making the front line of change weaker.
At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and ...
Throughout her years of organizing, Mariame Kaba has encountered formerly criminalized youth with brilliant creative talent, but they lacked the resources to work at length on their craft.
In a New York Times op-ed from that year famously titled “Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police,” the prominent organizer Mariame Kaba argued that police were not set up to go after “the ...
Two Pratt graduate students in the School of Information have received the Audre Lorde Justice Endowed Scholarship, established by activist and alum Mariame Kaba, MSLIS ’22. The scholarship supports ...
As part of the exhibition, Kaba also oversaw the building of a mock prison cell, surrounded by walls painted in what she calls an “ugly, institutional green.” “We’re talking about ...
A new art exhibition in New York City, curated by prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba and co-organized by nonprofit PEN America, puts a spotlight on the harsh realities of carceral censorship ...
Mariame Kaba is an organizer and founder of Project NIA, which works to end youth incarceration. Her latest book, coauthored with Kelly Hayes, is Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution ...
Prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba urged like-minded social activists to embrace the spirit of generosity, collective power, and mutual aid during the all-virtual 37th annual Martin Luther King Jr.