“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
– Gwendolyn Brooks
When mothers languish in jail because of money bail, our families and communities suffer.
All across Maryland and Virginia,
thousands of people languish in jails because they cannot afford bail or because their bail for previously bondable charges has been revoked. Black mamas –– whether biological mother or mothers of communities –– are critical sustainers of families. Those families suffer when mamas are jailed, needlessly, simply because they cannot afford bail.
In the spirit of abolitionist and native Marylander Harriet Tubman who waged a hunger strike and sit-in for money to buy her parent’s freedom, we gather funds to buy Black mamas out of the bondage of cages and jail cells and reunite them with their families and communities.
We honor Black mamahood and the importance of Black freedom by bailing out Black mamas and caretakers and working to end cash bail and pretrial detention in the DMV.
