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70 years ago today, #FredHampton was born. Fred grew up in Maywood and went on to become chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, and deputy chairman of the national [...]

Four years ago today, 17-year-old DeSean Pittman was shot and killed by Chicago Police. A few days after DeSean’s death, his family gathered for a vigil to uplift his memory. Chicago Police came [...]

HUGE VICTORY TODAY in the fight to #EndMoneyBail as a federal judge in New Orleans rules that money bail in unconstitutional! Congrats to our friends at Civil Rights Corps & [...]

Our thoughts are with the families of Debora Ann Lyons and Eldon Lee Jackson. Both Debora and Eldon took their lives within three weeks of each other while incarcerated pretrial in Harris County [...]

Please join our friend Rachel Wallis at this important event this Saturday, where you can help create quilts designed by women in Cook County Jail. The Inheritance Quilt is a collaboration with [...]

Today marks the beginning of the 2018 prison strike. Incarcerated people across the United States will be striking to demand better living conditions, an immediate end to prison slavery, greater [...]

Yesterday, all criminal charges against Lee Dewey were dropped and their case was resolved as a non-criminal violation of a municipal ordinance!!!! This is a fantastic result, and it is also [...]

Today, Aretha Franklin passed away at the age of 76. In 1970, the queen of soul committed to paying bail to free Angela Davis. She was quoted in the December 1970 issue of Jet Magazine saying [...]

Join the Chicago Community Bond Fund and For the People Artists Collective for an art party ahead of the Rally to #EndMoneyBail. We’re getting together at the Chicago Freedom School on [...]

“I was assigned to be on the band for ninety days and it was worse than prison for me. It kind of made me feel like an animal.” On July 17, a coalition of organizations, including [...]