The Alumni Ex-Offenders Association (AEA) was a group of formerly incarcerated men and women who provided resources to ex-offenders and assisted individuals in reconnecting to family and community. Regular meetings drew on the organization’s Community Capacity-Building Curriculum to build members’ skills.
AEA held facilitation workshops in our communities with the goal of building self-understanding and self-awareness. Workshops strove to create positive role models for personal, familial and political growth. Grounded in African and African-American traditions, our past workshops tackled “post-traumatic slave syndrome” and its effect on individuals of all racial backgrounds throughout U.S. history.
Below is a photograph from AEA’s project with Phila Assembled (2016-2017):
The photos below were taken by Tim Tiebout in July, 2017 during the Bridge-Lighting event in Nicetown-Tioga:
Recent Posts by AEA:
- Reconstruction Beyond 30 Years
An open letter from Reconstruction’s founder William Goldsby The purpose of this communication is to share briefly with you a piece of my personal story and to summarize the journey I have had with many of you within theRead more… Read more… - HISTORY and RECONSTRUCTIONPew’s Center for Arts and Heritage has funded Reconstruction, Inc. to match an African American story teller, psychologist along with historians in the field of African American history together with a group of African American men who are membersRead more… Read more…
- Project Showcase: History and ReconstructionHow can public historians and their audiences come to terms with the traumatic and ongoing legacies of racism and slavery in the United States? This is the question motivating a project I’m currently working on in Philadelphia with aRead more… Read more…