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The Harriet Tubman Project (HTP) was founded by incarcerated men in 2021 at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk (MCI Norfolk), under the legal department of the African American Coalition Committee (A.A.C.C.).
The Harriet Tubman Project began as a class aimed at teaching incarcerated individuals the intersectionality of the law and structural racism to empower one another to become experts in their own cases.
Twice a week, incarcerated men from diverse backgrounds gather to study, and equip themselves to effectively advocate for their rights within that criminal law system, with the goal of freeing themselves and others.
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13TH refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis.
Two drug lab chemists' shocking crimes cripple a state's judicial system and blur the lines of justice for lawyers, officials and thousands of inmates.
In 2013, Massachusetts State Police arrested 35-year-old crime drug lab chemist Sonja Farak for tampering with evidence: and that was only the beginning. Over time, details emerged that Farak had been in fact using the drugs that she was tasked with testing.
Murder In Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning, an HBO Original Documentary Series in association with The Boston Globe, explores the enduring, painful toll the 1989 Stuart case had on those involved, Boston race relations, and how a community can be affected in a rush to justice.
A Boston man facing his 4th trial for murdering a police officer fights to prove his innocence and expose the police corruption that unjustly put him away for 22 years.
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Our aim is to empower those most impacted by the criminal law system to lead the way to freedom.
"My pain is real, thus is my advocacy."
- Allah Fu-Quan
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