Previously incarcerated men and women are introduced for panel discussion on Michigan prisons and coming home, at Returning Citizens Day June 23, 2024. (L to R) : Kimball Gaskin-El, Machelle Pearson, emcee Zsa Zsa C. Hubbard, LaToya Perry, Larry D. Smith (exonerated in 2021.
Adeyemi Dance Academy members at Returning Citizens Day June 23, 2024 See https://adeyemidanceacademy.com/ for info on the Academy.
For more information on Returning Citizens Day and continued organizing efforts for victims of criminal injustice, call:
Larry Darnell Smith, Jr.: (313)677-2354; larrydarnellsmithjr@gmail.com
Shirletha Gaskins: (586)222-2764; (20+) Facebook
RICKY RIMMER
THIS FLIER UPDATING RICKY RIMMER’S CASE WAS DISTRIBUTED AT RETURNING CITIZENS DAY TO THE MANY INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATING; Emcee Zsa Zsa C. Hubbard called out from the stage: FREE RICKY RIMMER!
JUNE CUNNINGHAM
The passing of Robert “June” Cunningham only months after he was paroled from a lifer sentence was also announced from the stage. A profoundly moving memorial was held July 5, 2024 (see obituary below). Numerous men who had served time with him paid tribute to him. They noted the unbreakable b0nds they had formed with members of their prison family during decades of oppression in the system.
Perry J. Scott wrote in his printed tribute:
“. . .in spite of being pressed against vicious walls of injustice for 50 years, he took his crusade for justice to the source and clamored for fair treatment with defiant methods of creative protest for his freedom. Robert JR Cunningham was an upright learned man, strong, pragmatic Brother of change who struggled endlessly to liberate himself from the unpromising limitations of prison life, a corrupt System filled to its capacity.”
Some of those who attended June Cunningham’s wake July 5, 2024. Photo: Abner Hines
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