Justice
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Van Jones Major Bipartisan Bill To Fix Criminal Justice System President Barack Obama today called for sweeping reforms to America’s criminal justice system. The president’s announcement accelerates the…
Gregory Peck plays Atticus Finch Have you heard the news? Atticus Finch is a racist. Guess what? So are you. So am I. I know, it's hard to…
Redlined for Failure and the Prison Pipeline Ndume Olatushani is an artist, organizer, and a passionate advocate for justice who works with the Children’s Defense Fund’s Nashville organizing…
Dylann Roof--nurtured by legacy of hateful white supremacy Some neighbors in our predominantly white western rural Massachusetts town of Williamsburg have hoisted the Confederate battle flag up their…
To think they even have to "debate" whether this should be removed or not... The lives of six women and three men were cut short under a hail…
Alton H. Maddox, Jr. In Adam Liptak "Supreme Court To Weigh Race In Admissions," N.Y. Times, June 30, 2015 at A1, the U.S. Supreme Court will take another…
Obama delivers. He left Clementa Pinckney’s funeral as a Black man who happened to be president. If Martin Luther King’s "I Have A Dream" speech is the 20th…
The count of black churches in the South that have been torched is not the six that have been burned since the massacre of nine blacks at Charleston's…
McDermott Enshrining a Presumption of Openness The President has a new opportunity to ensure that the openness policies laid out on his first day of office do not…
Freddie Gray Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Kajieme Powell, James Boyd, and Ethan Saylor were all killed in controversial and ultimately tragic interactions with law enforcement. Odds are the…
