Author: Shari Stone-Mediatore
Shari Stone-Mediatore is a professor of philosophy at Ohio Wesleyan University and author of Reading Across Borders: Storytelling and Knowledges of Resistance. She is currently on leave from her teaching position and working as managing director of Parole Illinois, an organization dedicated to reversing the harms of extreme sentencing.
Chipping Away at the Cement and Imaginary Walls
“[T]his is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen … that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it. … It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.” —James Baldwin, “Letter to My Nephew” As …