Biography
Awali Stoneham was listed as a New Afrikan / Black-liberation political prisoner, held at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California, in U.S. political-prisoner directories of the 1980s. Detailed, reliably-sourced information about his case was not available; this entry preserves the directory listing.
Individually captioned San Quentin portrait and cultural work
The June 26, 1981 San Quentin News individually captions a photograph “Awali Stoneham.” The adjoining report identifies him as master of ceremonies and vice president of Self Advancement Through Education (SATE) at the Juneteenth African Cultural program held in San Quentin’s north dining hall on June 20. It describes his remarks about African-American independence and his introduction of Reverend Diana M. Clark.
This contemporary institutional report supplies a named portrait and a specific cultural-organizing role. It does not date his original admission, any transfer to or from the later directory-listed Soledad institution, or his eventual release. The existing undated case remains unchanged; June 20 is an event date, not a custody endpoint. The photograph’s caption does not state a prisoner register number, and no face comparison or demographic inference is used.
San Quentin News, volume LI, no. 23, June 26, 1981, complete original page 2, “SATE Sponsors Annual African Culture Show,” contributed by Gregory B. LaRue; University of California, Berkeley institutional catalogue for the same issue. The original portrait and full caption/article context are preserved; the profile image is only an unretouched crop from the preserved PDF image raster.
