Race Best Predicts Whether You Live Near Pollution
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Race Best Predicts Whether You Live Near Pollution

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N.C.’s Latest Attempt to Limit Black Voter Influence Statewide Fails 

North Carolina’s “contorted and contrived … serpentine” Congressional District 12


By Moses Frenck

North Carolina’s most recent attempt to prevent Black voters from influencing elections received a setback late Friday night after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay, or stop, a ruling by a lower court forcing the state’s Republican-led legislature to redraw its electoral maps because they amounted to racial gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering, which is legal, allows state legislatures to manipulate the boundaries of congressional districts to favor a particular party. However, it is not legal to do so on the basis of race. In the case of North Carolina, by packing more Blacks into districts that already voted for Black representatives, it reduced the number of Blacks in other districts.

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina on Feb. 5 ruled that the state’s congressional redistricting maps were unconstitutional because lawmakers used race to determine the districts’ shape and voting populations. The court had given North Carolina until Friday, Feb. 19 to redraw the maps.

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App Sends Push Notification to Your Phone Every Time Police Kill Someone

“… thanks to an inventive journalist at The Intercept, Josh Begley, there is an app anyone can download to their smartphone that will alert them every time police kill someone.

The app, called Archives and Absences, sends the name of the person who was killed and where they were killed to your phone.

Counting killer cops just went mobile.”


Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/app-sends-push-notification-time-police-kill/#0TlHZokGHIpqIkXx.99

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STUDY: Middle Class Blacks and Latinos Disproportionately Impacted by Student Debt Crisis

More than 40 million Americans carry a combined record $1.2 trillion in student loan debt, with the average borrower in hock for $29,000. Now, a new study from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth shows that education-related debt is strangling some people of color, squeezing tighter on their necks than the general population.

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On any given day, between 80,000 and 100,000 people are in solitary confinement in the U.S.

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SPLC releases new count of hate groups operating in America

The number of extremist groups operating in the United States grew in 2015 – a year awash in deadly extremist violence and hateful rhetoric from mainstream political figures, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s annual census of hate groups and other extremist organizations.

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India Kager

India Kager (1988-2015), an unarmed Black American woman, mother of two, was gunned down by police in Virginia Beach, Virginia on September 5th 2015. In February 2016 her mother put up a tearful video on Facebook asking for justice:

 

“I can’t even tell you how bad this hurts …”

 

The police will not even say who did it.

 

On September 5th 2015, Kager was driving home her boyfriend, Angelo Perry. In the back seat was her four-month-old baby, Roman. Just before midnight they stopped at a 7-Eleven store at 2093 Lynnhaven Parkway. Police officers appeared. In 15 seconds they fired 30 bullets. The police say Perry shot first. No police officer was injured. She and Perry died in a hail of bullets. Her baby lived.

 

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