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From The Internationalist Prison Books Collective
The New Press just donated 150 copies of the excellent book The New Jim Crow to us to be sent to North Carolina prisoners. This comes right on the heels of NCPLS successfully challenging the ban by the North Carolina Dept. of Corrections on The New Jim Crow as a violation of the First Amendment. This donation is a huge help for us at the Prison Books Collective and the populations we send books to. There is a great need inside prisons to understand the roots and nature of the prison-industrial complex. We want to publicly thank The New Press for publishing this important book and making it available to NC prisoners.
From Chapel Hill Town Council Member Sally Greene's blog:
A couple of months ago, Al blogged about "Traces of the Trade,"
a documentary made by a descendant of the DeWolf family of Rhode
Island, "the largest slave trading family in U.S. history" according to
the film. The documentary follows the steps of the filmmaker Katrina
Browne and a handful of other descendants as they retrace the paths
over which this trading took place: from Bristol, Rhode Island to Ghana
to the Caribbean.
The film premiered at Sundance and has been shown on PBS (see trailer).
And because the family included a good number of Episcopal priests, it
has been taken up by the Episcopal Church nationally as part of the
church's ongoing work of reconciliation with its complicity with slavery and racism.
On Sept. 6, as part of a conversation sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina at St. Matthew's
church in Hillsborough, the film will be shown. After the film, I'll be
part of a panel discussion--in which I'll be bringing our own Thomas
Ruffin to the table.
Date:
Saturday, September 6, 2008 - 5:00am to 12:30pm
Location:
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Hillsborough
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