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Unlocked Voices: A Future Beyond Mass Incarceration
(Multifaith Initiative to End Mass Incarceration)
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Phillips & Marek was selected to create, promote and deliver a unique training experience across the country called Unlocked Voices. This initiative focuses on changing the narrative about mass incarceration through faith-based communities and professional musical performances. Based on focus group research of 7,060 people representative of the U.S. population, with an oversampling of Black Americans, the training centers around four key messages that fall into the categories of faith, equality, safety and imagine.
Unlocked Voices is part of the Multifaith Initiative to End Mass Incarceration. It was launched in 2018 by Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, and other prominent faith institutions confronting racial injustice from The Temple and NYC’s Auburn Seminary.
Unlocked Voices: A Future Beyond Mass Incarceration, aligns with our focus on the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities.
A Brief Overview of the Visual Branding
The Circles
The six inner circles mimic those of the Multifaith EMI logo and represent our proposed training cities throughout the country.
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The larger circles are symbolic of our collective voices being amplified throughout our communities and beyond.
The Lead Came and Color Imagery
The “lead came”, which are the dark bars used to hold the glass together, represent the far-reaching impacts of incarceration throughout America, infiltrating our communities and even surrounding those who have never been incarcerated. As it permeates through our society, incarceration creates a feeling of darkness, confinement and impenetrability.
But when golden rays of sunlight, like the goodness of God, shine through the glass between those bars, they illuminate our faith in and the beauty of the world:
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the blue of our heavenly skies serving as a testament of His wisdom
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the green pastures of earth symbolic of our ability to grow
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and white light representing love and peace within our communities.
If we measured those impacted by incarceration by only seeing the hardness and confinement of the lead came that held them, we would fail to see the beauty and fragility within.
But when we choose to see the light, it is there that we find wisdom, growth, and love.