Black Mama’s Bail Out

Black Mama’s Bail Out began in 2017 with an invitation from Mary Hooks, the former co-director of Southerners on New Ground (SONG), who invited a small group of organizers to join a tactical mass bailout. From an invitation, it has grown into a campaign led by the National Bail Out Collective to bail out Black mamas and caregivers from jails and migrant detention centers across the country every year before Mother’s Day.