Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba is an American activist and organizer who advocates for the abolition of the prison industrial complex, including all police.[1]

For the French-Guinean actress, see Mariam Kaba.
Mariame Kaba
Born
New York City
EducationNorthwestern University
Occupationactivist

Early life and education

Mariame Kaba was born in New York City to parents who had immigrated from Guinea and the Ivory Coast.[2] She grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and attended Lycée Français.[3] As a child, she viewed the world through a black nationalist framework and looked for ways to help others.[4]

In 1995 she moved to Chicago to study sociology at Northwestern University.[2][5]

Career

In Chicago, she founded the Chicago Freedom School,[6] the Rogers Park Young Women’s Action Team (YWAT),[2] Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women,[7][8] Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander,[9] and We Charge Genocide (WCG).[10] In 2009, Kaba founded the organization Project NIA, which advocates to end youth incarceration.[11][12]

Kaba views prison abolition as the total dismantling of prison and policing while building up community services and opposes the reform of policing.[13][14] Her work has created the framework for current abolition organizations including Black Youth Project 100, Black Lives Matter Chicago, and Assata's Daughters.[4]

Writing

In 2012, she wrote Resisting Police Violence in Harlem, a historical pamphlet detailing the policing and violence in Harlem.[15][16]

In March of 2018, she wrote Lifting As They Climbed: Mapping A History Of Black Women On Chicago’s South Side with Essence McDowell. Started in 2012, the book is written as a guidebook that maps the history of the influential Black women who contributed to the development of Chicago during the 19th and 20th centuries.[17][5]

In June 2018, she wrote the foreword for As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation, a book by Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson that describes the importance of Black anarchist and abolitionist principles to contemporary social justice movements.[18]

Awards
  • 2010 7th District Community Award from State Senator Heather Steans[19]
  • 2012 Courage Tour Award from A Long Walk Home[20]
  • 2013 Ed Marciniak Bright Star Award from the Bright Promises Foundation[21]
  • 2014 Impact Award from the Chicago Foundation for Women[22]
  • 2014 Women Who Dared Award from Chicago NOW[23]
  • 2014 Partner in Justice Award from Lawndale Christian Legal Center [24]
  • 2015 Women to Celebrate Award[25]
  • 2016 AERA Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award[26]
  • 2016-2017 Soros Justice Fellow.[27]
  • 2017 Ron Sable Award for Activism[28]
  • 2017 Peace Award by War Resisters League[29]

Anti-violence projects
  • A World Without Prisons Art Exhibit[30] curated by Project NIA and Free Write Jail Arts & Literacy Program.[31]
  • Restorative Posters Project[32][33]
  • Co-curated No Selves to Defend.[34]
  • Co-curated Blood at the Root – Unearthing the Stories of State Violence Against Black Women and Girls.[35][36][37]
  • Co-curated Making Niggers: Demonizing and Distorting Blackness[38]
  • Co-curated Black/Inside. Black/Inside: A History of Captivity & Confinement in the U.S. Art Exhibit on display at African American Cultural Center Gallery[39]

Publications
  • "Yes, We Literally Mean Abolish the Police." The New York Times.[40]
  • "All of Chicago – not just its police – must see systemic change to save black lives." The Guardian.[41]
  • "For blacks, America is dangerous by default." The Washington Post.[42]
  • "Why I’m Raising Money To Build An Ida B. Wells Monument." The Huffington Post.[43]
  • "Where Twitter and Feminism Meet." The Nation.[44]
  • "How to Repair the Criminal Justice System." VICE.[45]
  • "To Live and Die in "Chiraq."" The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape. Eds Javon Johnson and Kevin Coval. Northwestern University Press.[46]
  • "Bresha Meadows Returns Home After Collective Organizing Efforts." Teen Vogue.[47]
  • "For Mother's Day, Activists Are Bailing Black Mamas out of Jail." Broadly. [48]
  • Foreword, As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation, by Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson. AK Press. 2018.[49]

References
  1. Kaba, Mariame (12 June 2020). "Opinion | Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  2. "#WarriorWednesdays: Mariame Kaba Is Our Very Own Modern Day Abolitionist". Essence. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  3. "Why Is This Happening? Thinking about how to abolish prisons with Mariame Kaba". NBC News. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  4. Dukmasova, Maya. "Abolish the police? Organizers say it's less crazy than it sounds". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  5. Bowean, Lolly. "Guidebook maps the legacy of black women on Chicago's South Side". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  6. Nair, Yasmin. "Talking with prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba - LGBT News - Windy City Times". Windy City Times. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  7. "Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls & Young Women". www.chitaskforce.org. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  8. Harding, Kate (2015-08-25). Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do about It (in Arabic). Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-7382-17031.
  9. "No Selves to Defend: Poetry about Criminalization and Violence Against Women". wordpress.com. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  10. "We Charge Genocide". wechargegenocide.org. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  11. "Project NIA > About Us". project-nia.org. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  12. "How to Never Call the Cops Again: A Guide with a Few Alternatives to Calling Police". Autostraddle. 2020-06-03. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  13. Kaba, Mariame (2020-06-12). "Opinion | Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  14. Kaba, Mariame. "Police "Reforms" You Should Always Oppose". Truthout. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  15. Martin, Douglas (2014-10-08). "Robert Mangum, a City and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 93". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  16. Kaba, Mariame (2012). "An (Abridged) History of Resisting Police Violence in Harlem" (PDF). Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  17. "A Tour Of Black Women's Stories On Chicago's South Side". WBEZ Chicago. 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  18. Samudzi, Zoé; Anderson, William C.; Kaba, Mariame (June 5, 2018). As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. Chico, California: AK Press. ISBN 9781849353168.
  19. "Illinois State Senator Heather Steans". www.senatorsteans.com. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  20. "A Long Walk Home | Stars Foundation". www.starsfoundation.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  21. "Awards". www.brightpromises.org. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  22. "2018 Impact Awards - Chicago Foundation for Women". Chicago Foundation for Women. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  23. "Join us for Women Who Dared 2014!". Chicago NOW. 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  24. "Lawndale Christian Legal Center". lclc.net. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  25. "Women to Celebrate". Transformative Spaces. 2015-03-05. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  26. "Awards". www.aera.net. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  27. "Mariame Kaba". Open Society Foundations. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  28. "Ron Sable Award for Activism | Crossroads Fund". crossroadsfund.org. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  29. "WRL Peace Awards Recipients and Annual Dinner Speakers". War Resisters League. 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  30. "A World Without Prisons: A Conversation with Mariame Kaba". Lumpen Magazine. 2016-04-08. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  31. Dubler, Joshua; Lloyd, Vincent (2018-05-19). "Think prison abolition in America is impossible? It once felt inevitable | Joshua Dubler and Vincent Lloyd". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  32. "Restorative Posters | Representing Justice Visually". rjposters.com. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  33. "The Art of Restorative Questions". Cultural Organizing. 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  34. "Disappearing Acts: Domestic Violence & Black Legal Subjects | UCB Center for Race & Gender". www.crg.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  35. "Prison Culture » Video: Blood at the Root Exhibition". www.usprisonculture.com. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  36. "the art of the black lives matter movement". I-d. 2015-09-11. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  37. "Rekia Boyd, Other Female Victims of Police Violence Honored in Exhibit". DNAinfo Chicago. Archived from the original on 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  38. "Prison Culture » Making Niggers: Demonizing and Distorting Blackness". www.usprisonculture.com. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  39. "Black/Inside". African American Cultural Center.
  40. Kaba, Mariame (2020-06-12). "Opinion | Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  41. Kaba, Mariame (2015-12-28). "All of Chicago – not just its police – must see systemic change to save black lives | Mariame Kaba". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  42. "For blacks, America is dangerous by default". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  43. Kaba, Mariame (2018-05-02). "Why I'm Raising Money to Build an Ida B. Wells Monument". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  44. Kaba, Mariame; Smith, Andrea; Adelman, Lori; Gay, Roxane. "Where Twitter and Feminism Meet | The Nation". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  45. "How to Repair the Criminal Justice System". Vice.com. 2015-10-05. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  46. "The End of Chiraq | Northwestern University Press". www.nupress.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  47. Mariame Kaba; Colby Lenz. "How We Worked to #FreeBresha Meadows from Incarceration". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  48. "For Mother's Day, Activists Are Bailing Black Mamas out of Jail". Broadly. 2017-05-10. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  49. Samudzi, Zoé; Anderson, William C.; Kaba, Mariame (June 5, 2018). As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. Chico, California: AK Press. ISBN 9781849353168.
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