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  • Home
  • Why a Museum?
    • Project Summary
    • Sing Sing Today
    • The 1825 Cellblock
    • The Powerhouse
  • History of Sing Sing Prison
    • Quick Facts
    • Historic Significance
    • The Mutual Welfare League
    • Working at Sing Sing
  • Programs and Events
    • Justice Talks
    • Community Conversations
    • Interviews
  • About Us
    • Mission Statement
    • Our Plan >
      • Who's Involved
      • The Project's Impact
      • Bird's-Eye Overview
    • Board of Trustees
    • 2020 Year End Summary
    • 2019 Year End Summary
    • Reception
    • Press
  • News
    • COVID-19
  • DONATE
  • Contact

To Our Sing Sing Prison Museum Community, ​

​The Sing Sing Prison Museum is saddened by the events happening across the country. We express our sympathy to the families and communities of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, and remember the unnecessary and tragic deaths that preceded them. 
 
We stand in solidarity with Black communities across the country.
 
Our country’s legacy of racial violence reminds us of the need to confront the impact of racism, and to do the necessary work that will alter it. Part of our mission is to challenge all of us to reimagine criminal justice in America and build a better society. This history, and that of Sing Sing Prison, must be a resource for understanding our own times. 
 
These tragedies reaffirm our commitment to providing the tools for understanding the issues, identifying actionable steps, and amplifying voices. We are committed to being a space for difficult conversations about justice, incarceration, and policing. To that end, we recommend exploring the following resources. Our list is not exhaustive, but we hope it will encourage thinking about how individual and collective action can produce systemic change.
 
Understand the Issue: resources to learn more about the current situation
  • Anti-Racism Resource Guide
  • White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  • “First Listen, Then Speak: Anti-Racism Resources” by Forbes
 
Actionable Steps: what you can do today
  • Talking About Race
  • Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race
  • Address implicit bias
  • Understand your implicit biases
  • Donate to organizations like the NAACP Legal Defense Fund or the ACLU that support racial justice through legal services, litigation, and education
  • Support minority-owned businesses in your neighborhood
 
Amplify Voices: voices from the Black community
  • Lonnie G. Bunch, Smithsonian Secretary, and his statement on recent events
  • True Justice, a documentary about civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson
  • Teaching For Black Lives
  • Why You Should Stop Saying “All Lives Matter”
 
Our Partners
We want to draw special attention to our partners Hudson Link, Rehabilitation Through the Arts, and the Osborne Association for the ongoing work they do to support racial justice. We also wish to share statements from the Village of Ossining and Westchester County.
 

Our well wishes to you all, 
The Sing Sing Prison Museum Trustees and Staff

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