Trump may have risen on the wings of white backlash. But black Americans’ fierce resistance to a candidate they see as racist could spell his defeat.
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Baltimore vs. Marilyn Mosby | The New York Times Magazine
In the midst of a national crisis of police violence, Baltimore’s state’s attorney gambled that prosecuting six officers for the death of Freddie Gray would help heal her city. She lost much more than just the case.
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11,341 Rape Kits were Collected and Forgotten in Detroit. This is the Story of One of them.
Ardelia Ali was raped in 1995. Twenty years later, her rapist was convicted thanks to the tireless efforts of prosecutor Kym Worthy.
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Black Incarceration hasn’t been this low in a generation
Throughout the presidential campaign season, both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have been excoriated for supporting the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which critics charge is fueling mass incarceration of African Americans.
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The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they’ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it’s time to reclaim his original intent.
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The ‘Ground’ in ‘Stand Your Ground’ Means Any Place a White Person Is Nervous
[two_fifth padding=”0 25px 0 10px”]BY Patricia J. Williams | PUB The Nation He looked dangerous. He looked like a suspect. He looked like he was reaching for a weapon. The officer feared for his life.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] This familiar litany was recited on the news more than once in this vexed summer—a time weighted […]
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Black Activists Don’t Ignore Crime
IT has become a standard conservative talking point: Black activists focus on police brutality but ignore violent crime in black neighborhoods.
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