In 2008, we elected the most progressive president in history. And regardless of the negativity, when you actually look at the record, there has been a lot of progress since January 20, 2009.
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The Cost of School-to-Prison Pipeline: Racially Biased School Suspensions Cost Taxpayers $35 Billion Each Year
The increasingly harsh, zero-tolerance policies adopted by American school systems in the last decade have led to record numbers of suspensions, expulsions and school-based arrests in the nation’s most vulnerable populations.
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What Black Americans Say About ‘Black-on-Black’ Gun Violence – KOLUMN Magazine
We understand that police violence and gun crimes are two parts of the same systemic problem. If only news media saw that, too.
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Some Police Departments Now Give Awards to Officers for Showing Restraint, But Is That Enough to Stop the War Against Black People?
At a time when the fatal shooting of unarmed Black men has placed police patterns and practices under the microscope, a handful of police departments are employing a new tactic — awarding officers for showing restraint on the job.
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What It Means for Black Youth as South Carolina Plans to Raise the Age of Juvenile Offenders from 17 to 18 – KOLUMN Magazine
South Carolina will join the ranks of other states who keep teenagers in the juvenile justice system until age 18.
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A Crumbling, Dangerous South Side Creates Exodus of Black Chicagoans
With its big old homes and apartments, four grocery stores and doctors’ offices, South Shore had all kinds of residents — laborers, city workers, artists, businessmen and executives — raising their families side by side.
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State Replaces Cell With Classroom In New Effort To Reduce Recidivism
Inmates are trading bars for books in a new program designed to ease their reentry into civilian life.
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An African-American Mother, One of Many, Grappling with Her Son’s Violent Death
They typically gather around Mother’s Day each year to catch up, hold each other and cry for the children they’ve lost.
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Over 90% Of Memphis Homicide Victims Are African-American
Of the 83 homicides in Memphis so far this year, 76 of the victims were African-American. That means more than 9 out of every 10 homicide victims are black. 65 of the victims were black men.
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FBI Director Claims the ‘Ferguson Effect’ and Black Lives Matter are to Blame for the Rise in Violent Crimes…Again
Despite an overall drop in the number of violent crimes committed in the U.S., rates have surged in over 40 major cities across the nation.
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