Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System by Stanford Alumni Association [VIDEO]

Watch Stanford Alumni Association’s 1/13 Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System on Livestream.com. Roundtable conversation featuring Bryan Stevenson, Jennifer Eberhardt, Gary Segura, Robert Weisberg, JD ’79, and Katie Couric. OpenXChange is a year-long, student-focused initiative on campus that aims to encourage meaningful dialogue around tough issues. This is the first in a series of discussions with Stanford faculty and global experts on criminal justice, inequality and international conflict.

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Bryan Stevenson is a power house for social justice. He’s a defense attorney and author with 21 honorary doctorate degrees. Listen closely to what he’s telling us. The auditorium was packed, including the overflow room. I was sent away with this link to the live stream.

Chic-fil-A Backs the Blue – The Angriest Black Man In America

A Chic-fil-A in Texes recently showed its public support of the so-called police lives matter campaign that counters the Black Lives Matter movement. The Chic-fil-A ordered t-shirts for its employees that reads “Back the Blue” and “Go Blue or Go Home.”… #backtheblue #blackbloggers #blackculture

 

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If they forced me to wear that shirt, I would quit.

Record Number of Cops Charged with Killing People in 2015 — No Officer Convicted

Although the number of cops charged with murder or manslaughter sharply spiked last year, not a single officer was convicted for these unjustified deaths. With less cops killed in the line of duty in 2015, the number of people killed by police increased yet again.

 

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Santa Clara: University exhibit remembers Mexico’s 43 missing college students

In a somber Saturday ceremony, 43 silhouettes of young men were mounted at Santa Clara University in remembrance of the student teachers who were attacked, abducted and presumably slain in a small Mexican town in 2014

 

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S.F. Police Chief Suhr must answer for death of #MarioWoods, crowd says

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Audience members listen during a raucous meeting at S.F. City Hall over the police shooting death of #MarioWoods in Bayview.
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BlackLivesMatter Activism Tweets 12.17

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Man Charged with hate crime for fire bombing Mosque in Coachella, CA

COACHELLA, Calif. –
Update Saturday 1:45 p.m.  Riverside County Jail Records show 23-year-old Carl James Dial was booked into the Indio jail at 1.46 a.m for several felony charges including arson and a hate crime.

 

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