Applications are due THIS FRIDAY 5/15 for the Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency which will award $2,500 grants to 14 artists impacted by the criminal punishment system to work on creative projects. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/stevie-wilso...

The goal of this is to re-establish and strengthen the Black teenager 'direct to prison pipeline' that the District has worked so hard to disrupt. It's racist, cruel, and evil.

MPD does this every year and it’s literally a policy to surveil and police the Blackest parts of the city without concern for any constitutional protections.

Federal ‘summer surge' to target youth crime in DC www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

Behind every campaign is the work you don’t always see. Our Research, Documentation, and Outreach working groups have been heads-down in finalizing surveys, mapping out outreach strategy, and pulling together photos that capture exactly what this campaign is about. Big things loading.

Something that more people need to embrace about the importance of public library organizing is that it's a good foundation to organize for other public goods. We need to explicitly connect library organizing with parks organizing as just one example and so on and so forth...

Last week, YOC sat down with the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council to talk about what young people actually need: Resources, support, and pathways that keep them OUT of the system in the first place. Decisions about youth shouldn’t be made without youth at the table.

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I secured some funding last year to revive the Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency. I’m excited to announce that applications are open today until May 11 for young artists (ages 16-24) directly impacted by criminalization, policing, or punishment.

It's not easy to run youth training Institutes. As someone who has organized many such institutes over the years (as summer programs and regular school year ones), there are a number of important considerations. So I'm very interested in how More Perfect University does.

‼️Stop the Permanent Expansion of the Youth Curfew‼️ TOMORROW 🗣️ Tuesday 4/21, DC Council votes on the permanent juvenile curfew. Curfews aren’t prevention; they’re a failure to invest in youth. Call & email DC council & tell them to vote no! Youth need opportunities, not over-policing. 1/13

Stop the Permanent Expansion of the Youth Curfew!!! INTIMIDATION AND THREATS WITH PEPPER SPRAY DON'T KEEP ANYONE SAFE! Call and email your councilmembers today! 13/13

‼️Stop the Permanent Expansion of the Youth Curfew‼️ TOMORROW 🗣️ Tuesday 4/21, DC Council votes on the permanent juvenile curfew. Curfews aren’t prevention; they’re a failure to invest in youth. Call & email DC council & tell them to vote no! Youth need opportunities, not over-policing. 1/13

Sahar's son Odai needs foot surgery. It costs $4000. Since yesterday, we've raised 1181 pounds or $1564 towards the goal. There's $2436 left to go. If you can contribute any amount to the goal, I'd appreciate it. chuffed.org/project/1656... - it would be great to meet the goal by Friday.

A fast-tracked youth curfew extension in DC is being pushed as protection, yet it risks doing what policies like this have always done: over-police, over-surveil, and criminalize Black & Latine youth. We reject harmful curfew extensions! 1/8

Curfews are proven not to work, and yet the city continues to enact them. Making sure that young people know where curfew zones are is a first step towards youth safety. Here are the curfew zones for this weekend. Stay safe, everyone. Love and Solidarity 💜

Libraries are spaces where people can gather without spending money, learn together, and build the kind of shared intellectual life that authoritarianism seeks to destroy.

It’s so weird spending 5 years working on something in service to others and then it’s out in the world and you have to spend all your time being like “hey will you buy this and read it bc it’s the biggest thing I’ve ever done and I would hate for it to go to waste” 😂 bookshop.org/p/books/let-...

when i spoke to people whose SNAP benefits were threatened in the fall by the government shutdown, the thing many of them were most concerned about was access to fresh produce.

#tdih 1968, Howard University students took over the Admin Building with demands around discipline policies & African American history courses. One of many stories left out when textbooks end Civil Rights Movement in 1965. More + ‘68 doc, ”Color Us Black”⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ho... 🧵

read a Gwendolyn Brooks interview and used it to write about writing: www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658090

“Art is dangerous… and that’s exactly why it matters.” - Toni Morrison This is legacy in motion. Through their lens, young people don’t just witness history, they claim it, reshape it, and carry it forward. *Photo by Alberto, CE Alumni

DC youth getting ready to speak truth to power. CE members gathered for a testimony writing workshop organized by Black Swan Academy to prepare for a March 19 youth roundtable at DC Council, where they’ll speak on housing, safety, mental health, access to resources, & the importance of their voice.

Coop-curious? We’re joining Beloved Community Incubator (@dc-bci.bsky.social) tonight at 7 p.m. ET for a webinar on the benefits of cooperatively owned businesses and worker-directed organizations — for individuals and communities. RSVP here:

COLOSSAL: ‘The Language We Share’ Traces a Photographic Lineage Between Gordon Parks and Beverly Price www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/beve... @thisiscolossal.com‬ #photojournalism #journalism #photography

#tdih 1971 A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn. They removed docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt & destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs. Read⬇️ 🧵#TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...

👏 Join the 2024-25 State of D.C. Schools event, featuring: 🌟 Dr. Antoinette Mitchell (OSSE) 🌟 Dr. Lewis Ferebee (@dcpublicschools.bsky.social) 🌟 @deniseedtrust.bsky.social (@edtrust.bsky.social) 🌟 Shannon Hodge (KIPP DC) 🌟 LaSheema Burnett (@dcpave.bsky.social) ➡️ Register: ow.ly/hWFW50YoJJL

"The program, known as the People’s Pan-African Wellness Front (PPFW)...provided services free of charge to community members — all with the promise of more to come." - Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. for @washingtoninformer.com www.washingtoninformer.com/cedar-hill-r...

“You’ll see a lot of images of community, a lot of tenderness, empathy, things that are often not shown when you talk about the culture within the prison system"

Inside Out: Dignity and the Art of Seeing gives an in-depth look at the lives of incarcerated men. The exhibit, closing tonight with a 6 p.m. reception, contains photographs, videos, and more from the Arts in Prison program done at the shuttered Lorton Reformatory.

Street Vendor • Austin, Texas, USA Rolleiflex 3.5 MX-EVS • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2026 #FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #ATX #TX #Downtown #Austin #Texas #Street #Vendor #People #Sixth #Street #Evening #Outdoors #January_21_2026

I talked with @lewispants.bsky.social about the art and science of transformation, how people *really* let go of harmful beliefs, and how we can cultivate the conditions that make unlearning possible.

Morning pep talk

REUTERS: The week in pictures www.reuters.com/pictures/wee... @pictures.reuters.com #photojournalism #journalism #photography

A Beech tree I have enjoyed visiting regularly over the years, Exmoor. #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw

Life is short, friends. Spend as much of it as you can loving people.

VOGUE: Photojournalist Annice Lyn on wielding empathy and creating visibility for women in a male-dominated industry vogue.sg/career-files... @vogue.globo.com.web.brid.gy #photojournalism #journalism #photography

“Photography through the lens of SNCC activists and local people made the personal political, as communities actively sought to redefine their conditions and fight for economic, psychological, and political liberation. It combated racist media coverage … and worked to illustrate the facts”

“I think technology & social media create new challenges for truth telling... But I still think a camera can be a powerful weapon – in the hands of a gifted storyteller, which is what I saw Gordon Parks as. He was an artist beyond his skill at taking a photograph" www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“In a moment when content is being removed from cultural institutions across the United States, when there is resistance, even contempt, for anyone who tries to talk honestly about this history, this Gordon Parks exhibit is both timely and urgent. #BlackskyNews www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#Photography by Gordon Parks (1912–2006) #art

WALLPAPER: Gordon Parks’ photographs of Black Americans in the 1950s are essential viewing in London www.wallpaper.com/art/photogra... @wallpapermag.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography

‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it

Tomorrow, my students and I begin Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece. This is my favorite novel to read and teach and this is the most perfect first page in all of literature. I’m nervous and excited to experience Janie’s world with this group. The conversation will be RICH. #TeachingTEWWG

Take Janney Elementary in Tenleytown. On January 29, the Thursday after the storm, 90% of the school's 720 kids attended. But over at Beers Elementary in Ward 7, attendance was 16% of the school's 364 students.

Yesterday, at DC Council’s oversight hearing, our program director, Talia, testified and shared a story from one of our members from the youth collective of Critical Exposure. We’re calling for reinvestment and accountability. Our youth are constantly wrestling against a system they can’t trust.

Who gets to tell the story? At Worldview Wednesdays, our instructors, Orlando and Delonte, help young people explore photography as a tool for storytelling, critical thinking, and change. From camera care to photojournalism ethics, students are learning that their perspectives matter.

Over the last year, MPD has started cooperating more than ever before with federal agents. It has had deadly consequences, and it's beyond time for DC Council to address it. Here are the 11 things we're asking for during DC Council's annual Performance Oversight Hearing on MPD.

Next week, join the Law Center's Youth Team for a webinar about the Youth Homelessness Index, a know-your-rights and policy advocacy tool that tracks over 100 youth-identified policy priorities that move us closer to our goal of housing justice! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...