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The “Shocking” Statistics of Racial Disparity in Baltimore
By Bill Quigley Were you shocked at the disruption in Baltimore? What is more shocking is daily life in Baltimore, a city of 622,000 which is 63 percent African American. Here are ten numbers that tell some of the story. … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, health, income inequality, mass incarceration, race, unemployment
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How the War on Drugs Contributes to the ‘1.5 Million Missing Black Men’
By Tony Newman On Monday, the New York Times published a deeply upsetting piece titled, “1.5 Million Missing Black Men.” According to the Times, “Black women who are 25 to 54 and not in jail outnumber black men in that … Continue reading
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Tagged black men, law, mass incarceration, police, race, racism, War on Drugs
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Inside America’s Toughest Federal Prison
By Mark Binelli In prison, Rodney Jones told me, everyone had a nickname. Jones’s was Saint E’s, short for St. Elizabeths, the federal psychiatric hospital in Washington, best known for housing John Hinckley Jr. after he shot Ronald Reagan. Jones … Continue reading
Obama’s Police Reforms Ignore the Most Important Cause of Police Misconduct
By Alex S. Vitale President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing has released a long list of reforms to American policing, some of which, including independent police prosecutions and dramatically scaling back the role of police in schools, are … Continue reading
Charting the shocking rise of racial disparity in our criminal justice system
By Christopher Ingraham The position of most black men, relative to white men, is no better than how things stood after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1965. Thats the sobering conclusion of a new paper out from … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, black men, Civil Rights Act, mass incarceration, race, Research
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Bill Moyers and Michelle Alexander on the Racist Plague of Mass Incarceration and America’s Future
By Bill Moyers and Michelle Alexander There are more African Americans under correctional control today ̶ in prison or jail, on probation or parole ̶ than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. According to The … Continue reading
50 years after the March on Washington, what would MLK march for today?
By Peter Dreier What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. march for if he were alive today? America has made progress on many fronts in the half-century since King electrified a crowd of 200,000 people, and millions of Americans … Continue reading
How The Zimmerman Mindset Rigged The Justice System Against Black Men
By Judd Legum George Zimmerman killed one boy, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Although a Florida jury found Zimmerman not guilty, his attitude — that a young black male is an object suspicion and contempt — not only cost Martin his life … Continue reading
Bryan Stevenson – We need to talk about an injustice
Great presentation from human rights lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative discussing the unfairness of the American criminal justice system.
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