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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Walter Scott, Thomas Slager, and the Myth of Police Reform
By Ta-Nehisi Coates There is a tendency, when examining police shootings, to focus on tactics at the expense of strategy. One interrogates the actions of the officer in the moment trying to discern their mind-state. We ask ourselves, “Were they … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, police, police violence, race, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott
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Driving While Black Has Actually Gotten More Dangerous in the Last 15 Years
By Jaeah Lee Walter Scott’s death in South Carolina, at the hands of now-fired North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, is one of several instances from the past year when a black man was killed after being pulled over while … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, driving while black, law, police, race, United States
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Chelsea’s Invisible Hand
By Kenneth P. Vogel As her mother prepared to launch her second campaign for the presidency, Chelsea Clinton’s staff was compiling an email chronicling the former first daughter’s growing public profile and influence within the family’s sprawling global philanthropy. Sent … Continue reading
Will Jay-Z lead artists into a powerful new digital era?
By Ashahed M. Muhammad Jay-Z rarely uses social media so when he used his Twitter account to communicate with his 3.1 million followers, people kind of knew something was brewing. It was seen as a major move when the Hip … Continue reading
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Tagged business, digital music, entertainment, Jay-Z, money, music, Pandora, Rhapsody, Spotify, technology, TIDAL
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The Walter Scott outrage nobody is talking about
By Heather Digby Parton The horrific story of the unarmed Walter Scott’s death at the hands of Officer Michael Slager continues to reverberate. Aside from the incontrovertible evidence on the tape that the accused officer shot him in the back … Continue reading
Reflecting a racial shift, 78 counties turned majority-minority since 2000
By Jens Manuel Krogstad In the United States as a whole, the white share of the population is declining as Hispanic, Asian and black populations grow. But the shift to a more diverse nation is happening more quickly in some … Continue reading
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Tagged citizenry, demographics, majority-minority, population, United States
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The Numbers Are Staggering — The US Is a ‘World Leader’ in Child Poverty
By Paul Buchheit America’s wealth grew by 60 percent in the past six years, by over $30 trillion. In approximately the same time, the number of homeless children has also grown by 60 percent. Financier and CEO Peter Schiff said, … Continue reading
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Tagged Child poverty, children, health, politics, poverty, United States
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Chicago To Pay $5 Million To Family Teen Shot 16 Times By Cop While Allegeldly Wielding Knife
Associated Press Federal and county prosecutors are investigating the October fatal shooting by a Chicago police officer of a teenager who authorities say was wielding a knife, and the city says it will pay his family $5 million to preclude … Continue reading
A Rising Share of the U.S. Black Population Is Foreign Born
By Monica Anderson A record 3.8 million black immigrants live in the United States today, more than four times the number in 1980, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Black immigrants now account for … Continue reading
Some Key Facts We’ve Learned About Police Shootings Over The Past Year
By Gene Demby We’ve done a lot of writing and reporting at Code Switch over the last year on deadly police shootings of unarmed black people, cases that have become such a part of our landscape that they have a … Continue reading
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