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The United States Incarcerates more people per capita than any other country in the world.
-Western Prison Project & Prison Policy Initiative
Lyrics on Lockdown: Slamming the Prison Industrial Complex (LOL)
Launched as a summer performance/workshop tour in 2001, LOL has reached over 25 cities since its inception. Today, LOL is sustained as a national awareness-building campaign operating locally in our chapter cities. Through workshops, performances, and coalition building with organizing and advocacy groups, BAC supports the mobilization of communities to halt the mass incarceration of people of color.
U.S. incarceration rates by race, June 30, 2003:
Whites: 376 per 100,000
Latinos: 997 per 100,000
Blacks: 2,526 per 100,000
(Prisonsucks.com)
Contact a chapter in your city for more information
about how to get involved.
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Education
BAC began offering youth leadership workshops in 2000 partnering with community organizations in NYC to support the development of young people as cultural leaders for social change. In 2001 we launched a school-based program at Freedom Academy high school. Through our education justice initiative we cultivate spaces where young people experience a learning process that is creative, empowering, and culturally relevant.
Educational Offerings:
BAC offers a range of youth development programs and “arts and activism” workshops specifically tailored to your groups needs. Our workshops incorporate Spoken Word, Hip Hop, Popular Theatre, Visual Arts, Digital Media, and Arts Entrepreneurship to create an interactive audience-driven educational experience that inspires young people to become leaders in the movement for social change.
Contact Us To Learn More About:
*Workshops and Artist Residencies
*Professional Development Trainings for Educators, Youth Workers, and Parents
*Curriculum Development Support
BAC travels internationally providing educational services to youth and adults that inspire communities to join movements and creatively expression their passionate desire for justice.
BAC members have experience working in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Trinidad, Guyana, Hong Kong, Bali, Senegal, India, The Philippines, South Africa, and Mexico.
Please contact a BAC chapter or our national office for more information.
The class really got me to open up and talk more in class. All I can say is I learned to be myself around everybody in this class. One thing I will always remember is the night we performed…That’s when I finally saw that I’m not alone and that I don’t have to be. So I’m very thankful for this class. I can definitely say I learned something when I walked out the door.
-Former Free! Ed Participant
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“Think
of Blackout like "Big Mama's House". We have a host of relatives.
We got crazy uncles, drunk aunties, thug cousins with their ears to
the streets, boo-gee folk that act better than urrbody else. We got
proper city folk and down home country folk. We got fam that can articulate
in academia, the board room, city and state politics and politic in
the projects and prison industrial complex. This is "Home"
and you are family. We can leave but we can always come back home. There
will always be a room, a chair at the table and a plate of food waiting
for you in "Big Mama's House".”
-Michael Bonds, Boston chapter
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