Dreams can fade quickly for many in Lake Providence, Louisiana, where the level of income inequality is greater than in any county or parish in the U.S.
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Justice
New Jim Crow [VIDEO]
New Jim Crow
“Legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues persuasively we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.
Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control.
More African Americans are under correctional control today than were enslaved in 1850
Alexander reviews American racist history from the colonies to the Clinton administration, delineating its deliberate transformation into the war on drugs. She provides analysis of the effect of this mass incarceration upon former inmates who will be discriminated against, legally, for the rest of their lives, denied employment, housing, education, and public benefits. Most provocatively, she reveals how both the move toward colorblindness and affirmative action may blur our vision of injustice. She spoke at Riverside Church in Manhattan May 21, 2011.
Michelle Alexander is a longtime civil rights advocate and litigator. She won a 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship and now holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Mortiz College of Law at Ohio State University.
Alexander served for several years as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, and subsequently directed the Civil Rights Clinics at Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor. Alexander is a former law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court, and has appeared as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, DemocracyNow! and NPR. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is her first book.”
Audio: Riverside Church, Camera: Joe Friendly
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Here is Angela Davis on the topic.
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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?
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THE NEW JIM CROW Online documentary
“Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”
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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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Mount Rushmore
“Mount Rushmore (1745m) is a mountain sacred to the Sioux called Six Grandfathers. Whites desecrated it with the faces of four white men carved into its side in the early 1900s.”
Community Village‘s insight:
Another kickazz post by Abagond.
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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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Why Human Rights Needs More Than Laws to Work
“1865-A mere 148 years ago, slavery was abolished in the United States
1920-A mere 93 years ago, women gained the right to vote
1924-A mere 89 years ago ,Native Americans, who were already on this continent, were granted US citizenship
1967-A mere 46 years ago, with Loving vs. Virginia, laws banning interracial marriage were deemed unconstitutional.”
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World Bank reforms aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2020 | ONE.org
“Over the weekend, the Development Committee – a ministerial-level forum of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – unanimously endorsed a new reform strategy to align the staff, finances and priorities of the WBG to meet the twin goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity for the bottom 40 percent of the population in developing countries. The new strategy will go into effect on July 1, 2014.”
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