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DGA-winning Director Stanley Nelson Discusses his Oscar-nominated Documentary, ‘Attica’

Lapacazo Sandoval, Contributing WriterMarch 17, 2022

Stanley Nelson is an African American documentary filmmaker and director of the Oscar-nominated documentary, “Attica”. During a recent interview with Bill C. Myers, Nelson shares about his life and career.

Black Prisoners Join National Prison Strike

Barrington M. Salmon, Contributing Writer/Black Press USA August 30, 2018

“I think we have as a country has been involved for so long in the War on Drugs and the War on Crime that we have forgotten that it’s not normal. We have a whole generation of children for whom it’s normal to be pulled over, be arrested and shuttled into the system. We have been in a catastrophic prison crisis for decades now. And conditions have gotten even worse. South Carolina was a wake-up call for people.”