hill harper books letters to a young brother

Whether you want to talk about it as the new Jim Crow as Michelle Alexander calls it so accurately in her book, or some type of modern-day slavery, the point is our system of incarceration is broken. All the while we’re losing a generation of individuals. Part of the reason I wanted to write this book is to shed light and get a discussion going about solutions to some of these issues. So, we do what most people do in the face of a problem, which is bury our heads in the sand and hope the problem solves itself.

A lot of us don’t know what to do because it’s such a multipronged problem. population, but we’re 60 percent of inmates.Į: Do you think we talk enough about incarceration in our communities?

Incarceration is like a cancer in our community. The impetus of this book is wanting to fill a void. I’m just like the reader attempting to figure it out. Just like any of my books, I’m not the expert. There’s one in there from a young man named Brian that made me ask the question Did Brian fail society or did society fail Brian? That’s what started me down the road, researching and exploring this idea. I started getting letters from a number of incarcerated young people as well as adults and the correspondence really touched my heart. Hill Harper: I want to be clear: the book is for incarcerated men as well as women, and their families. He spoke with about his new book, what mothers can do to avoid the cradle-to-prison pipeline and how he finds the time to do it all.Į: You’ve written the book especially for incarcerated men. Though the title may lead one to believe he’s only talking to people behind bars, Harper says he hopes the book stretches beyond the physical prison cell, to the “mental prisons” we find ourselves in through debt, depression or even bad relationships. In Letters to an Incarcerated Brother, Harper addresses what he calls “the cancer of in our community” through letters to imprisoned men and women he has befriended over the years. All while writing a book on incarceration in America. When does Hill Harper ever rest? Earlier this year, the CSI star left the beloved TV show to join USA spy thriller Covert Affairs and hosted his annual empowerment academies for youth through his Manifest Your Destiny foundation.

Hill harper books letters to a young brother