Since the publication of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, concerned citizens have been inspired to study her recommendations and consider how we can become change-agents. Events across the country and most recently a few miles away in Baltimore, where citizens are expressing their outrage over years of neglect and heavy-handed police behavior leading to brutality and incarceration of black and brown youth, have led Bethesda Friends Meeting and the Cedar Lane Unitarian/Universalist Church to plan an event on June 14 at 5:00pm, and we hope you will attend. The program we are planning features Donna Rojas and Alisa Smedley, co-directors of a training program at the Montgomery County Detention center in Boyds that is preparing its residents for release with job skills and education that will help them find employment after their release and become valued members of our society. We also want to hear what you and your community organizations and churches are doing to support those incarcerated.