Defend our bail reforms

The historic and hard-won bail reform law passed in 2019 made New York's criminal system fairer, helped keep families together, and made long-overdue progress toward ending decades of racial bias in our system. It has also kept thousands of legally innocent people out of deadly jails like Rikers.

But just like last year and the year before that, our critical reforms are again under political threat. The campaign to rollback bail reform is fueled by a multi-million dollar initiative to drive up fear, peddle misinformation, and throw more New Yorkers behind bars simply for being unable to buy their freedom.

ADD YOUR NAME: Tell lawmakerse to defend our historic bail reforms against political fearmongering and calls to backtrack.

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Black Achievers of 2023

 

 ENJAN Members, 

We are very pleased to highlight that on Sunday, February 26th Isis Benitez will be receiving the Social Action Ministry's Black Achievers Award for 2023.  Other very deserving award recipients include Barrington Atkins, Stacey Bottoms, Ondie James and Myael Simpkins.  The awards ceremony will start at 4:00 pm at Beulah Baptist Church, 92 Catherine Street in Poughkeepsie.  We encourage everyone to turn out on the 26th to help honor these dedicated community leaders.  If you cannot attend in person, there is also a Zoom option.  Please see the attached flyer for more details.

CONGRATULATIONS ISIS!!!

Thank you, 

The ENJAN Curators

Chairperson of the African People’s Solidarity Committee

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Penny Hess, long time activist, organizer and chairperson of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, talks about how whites can support the struggles for national liberation being waged by African and other oppressed peoples.
https://apscuhuru.org/

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Democracy Now on the Fight over Black History

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/3/crt_black_studies_roundtable

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Khalil Gibran Muhammad & E. Patrick Johnson

on the Fight over Black History

 

FEBRUARY 03, 2023

We host a roundtable with three leading Black scholars about the College Board’s decision to revise its curriculum for an Advanced Placement course in African American studies
after criticism from Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The revised curriculum removes Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer theory as required topics, while it adds a section on Black conservatism. The College Board, the nonprofit organization that administers Advanced Placement courses across the country, denies that it buckled to political pressure. “Florida is a laboratory of fascism at this point,” says Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. We also speak with two scholars whose writings are among those purged from the revised curriculum: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, professor of African American studies at Northwestern University, and E. Patrick Johnson, dean of Northwestern’s School of Communication and a pioneer in the formation of Black sexuality studies as a field of scholarship.