Dear Friends, Thanks to your support I was able to once again work at the Center for African Studies and teach one course at the university during the spring (Jan-May) semester. I am slotted to teach more courses this academic year beginning in September and hope to continue my work at the Center for African Studies For the moment, my employment situation seems stable. My further news is that during the eight months when I was barred from working at the U of I, I did complete a book manuscript, Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time, which will be published by The New Press on September 15, 2015. In addition, I was also given a platform by the Chronicle of Higher Education to write a piece entitled "What I Learning in Prison" which came out earlier this week. Once again I thank you all for your support and wish you well. Best, James Kilgore