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Tamar Sarai is a features staff reporter at Prism. Follow her on Twitter @bytamarsarai.

color photograph of an outdoor protest against police. people hold up cardboard signs reading "abolish police" in the foreground. in the background, a large sign on the side of a brick building reads "welcome to lower roxbury historic douglas square" with a large photo of frederick douglas
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We can’t allow oppressive systems to co-opt abolitionist language

Tamar by Tamar Sarai March 8th, 2023December 14th, 2023
The movement for media reparations must include the entertainment industry
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The movement for media reparations must include the entertainment industry

Tamar by Tamar Sarai February 17th, 2023February 16th, 2023
Prisons control incarcerated people's relationships and access to intimacy
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Prisons control incarcerated people’s relationships and their access to intimacy

Tamar by Tamar Sarai February 13th, 2023February 13th, 2023
color photograph of a spread out outdoor protest in support of student debt cancellation. a black person wearing a black shirt holds a yellow paper sign in the foreground with handwritten black text that reads: "pres biden cancel student debt"
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Student debt initiatives must include incarcerated people

Tamar by Tamar Sarai February 8th, 2023February 8th, 2023
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Can the media move from anti-Black racism and harm toward reparations?

Tamar by Tamar Sarai January 26th, 2023January 25th, 2023
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A new kind of crime reporting

Tamar by Tamar Sarai January 25th, 2023January 24th, 2023
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Journalistic integrity requires a reckoning with how news media covers the criminal legal system

Tamar by Tamar Sarai January 24th, 2023January 23rd, 2023
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Advocates use fashion to promote abolition and illustrate the toll of incarceration

Tamar by Tamar Sarai December 1st, 2022December 1st, 2022
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Felon re-enfranchisement restores more than civil rights

Tamar by Tamar Sarai November 3rd, 2022November 3rd, 2022
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Restoring voting rights to those trapped by the carceral system goes beyond successful legislation

Tamar by Tamar Sarai October 19th, 2022October 19th, 2022

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