“What has become of the killers of unarmed Black Americans that I have posted on? ”
-Abagond
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Injustice
Black Woman Shot to Death for Asking for Help in a White Neighborhood
Last Saturday morning at around 2:30am 19-year-old Renisha McBride got into a car accident in Dearborn Heights, a predominately white Detroit suburb. Because her cell phone battery was dead, she went to nearby home for assistance.
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Incarceration in America: The Inside Story
“BOOKD profiles, The New Jim Crow, legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s breakthrough book about the rise of mass incarceration in America. Alexander agues that “by targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control.
See as a Yale Law Professor, Community Activists, and hip hop legend Talib Kweli debate and discuss this provocative and important book.”
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Corporations Reap Billions from Mass Incarceration Pt 2
What companies are profiting off of prisoners and mass incarceration?
Community Village‘s insight:
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The 40 Year Solitary Confinement of Herman Wallace
“The injustice of his conviction speaks volumes about how broken our criminal justice system is, but his solitary confinement says even more about who we are as a society. The freedom of Mr. Wallace and so many others still being held in such circumstances is not all that has been lost through this cruel and unusual form of punishment.”
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New evidence in Kendrick Johnson’s death – CNN.com Video
Disturbing new evidence casts a new light on the death of high school student Kendrick Johnson. Victor Blackwell reports.
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SPLC sues Mississippi town for prohibiting gay bar | Southern Poverty Law Center
The SPLC filed a federal lawsuit today against the town of Shannon, Miss., its mayor and its aldermen for unjustly denying a business license to a bar catering to the LGBT community.
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