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Former UC Santa Cruz prof and presidential candidate, Angela Y Davis in a video in 2008 discussing the trend toward jailing members of poor communities with mostly people of color. Her research today focuses on race, gender and imprisonment. This is an important topic for Kentucky as we listen to the Children's Law Center who is looking at why we have such high incarceration rates for our schoolchildren of color.

This is the Louisville-based website for peace and justice activists in KY that also contains information about the mission and events of the KY chapter of the NAARPR (the national organization founded by Carl Braden and Angela Davis et al) - this loacl branch, according to Cate Fosl was Anne Braden's "central outlet for local activism" (p. 317 in SUBVERSIVE SOUTHERNER) from the 1970s on.