“More than 60% of the people in prison are now racial and ethnic minorities. For Black males in their thirties, 1 in every 10 is in prison or jail on any given day. These trends have been intensified by the disproportionate impact of the “war on drugs,” in which two-thirds of all persons in prison for drug offenses are people of color.”
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The Baldwin-Kennedy meeting (May 24th 1963) was when Robert Kennedy met James Baldwin to talk at length about race in America. Dramatis Personae: Robert Kennedy – president’s brother, Attorney Gene…
This account is telling of current race relations in the U.S.
The oppressors still don’t get it and they think they are not oppressing.
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The FBI was expected to seize hard drives from a surveillance system in the Kendrick Johnson probe, source says.
Sounds like a cover up.
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A 22-year-old man running home naked after his clothes were taken died after being shot in Florida by a shooter who has not been charged with a crime.
He leaves behind a 3-year-old daughter and a distressed mother. Now, his family wants answers, and someone held accountable. They wonder why Laguerre has not been arrested. The family has started a facebook page, Justice4Jandei, and a petition on Change.org calling on Florida authorities to charge Laguerre in the case.
A Georgia high school student has been suspended for one year for hugging his teacher.
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An analysis of Education Department data from the 2011-12 school year found that on average, white and Asian students attend high schools with twice as many Advanced Placement courses and almost twice as many science labs as schools attended by black and Hispanic students.’
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A black teenager is suing the city of Richmond, CA after a local police officer reportedly tasered him in the testicles.
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CNN aired a “knockout game” segment Tuesday afternoon pitting a martial arts expert against Don Lemon.
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“July 3: Assistant State Attorney John Guy, left, and Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda display the hooded sweatshirt worn by teenager Trayvon Martin on the night he was shot by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. A jury found Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder.”
The bullet hole is right over his heart.
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Glenn Broadnax, a 35-year-old black man from Brooklyn, was unarmed on the night of September 14 when NYPD officers shot at him in the middle of Times Square, striking two bystanders. Instead…
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