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R.E.A.L. Youth Initiative Works for Prison Abolition
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
10 Feb 2023
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Black Agenda Radio · R.E.A.L. Youth Initiative Works for Prison Abolition

Denzel Burke is Co-Founder and Co-Director of R.E.A.L. Youth Initiative in Illinois, which develops revolutionary consciousness and community among current and formerly incarcerated youth towards abolition of prisons and the conditions that reproduce them.
He joins us to talk about his work and the inspiration of the late Martin Sostre, the legendary prison abolitionist who was born 100 years ago.

Black Youth
Youth Incarceration
mass incarceration
Police Repression
Prison Abolition
Martin Sostre

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