In April 2016, The Clarion Call hosted a Town Hall on Mass Incarceration in conjunction with Bowie State University. Clarion assembled a team of subject-matter experts to bring awareness to issues related to mass incarceration and the disparities in arrest of African Americans. The United States has only 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s inmates. One in three U.S. black boys born in 2001 will be incarcerated in their lifetime.