This article examines how individuals experiencing incarceration inside jails and prisons use tenets of cultural rhetorics and digital literacies to reshape understandings about composition students and how they make knowledge to envision and practice freedom inside unconventional educational spaces. By primarily analyzing the prison podcastEar Hustle, the author addresses how incarcerated people turn to podcasting not only to sharpen their composing skills but also to build literate communities inside demoralizing environments.

Dave Tell’s Remembering Emmett Till is not simply another historiographical project about the 1955 killing of the black teenager from Chicago. It is about how issues of race, class, geography, and ...