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When Black America Was Pro-Police – The Atlantic

May 23, 2017African American Commuities, Crime ...

As crime rose from the late ’60s to the ’90s, so did inner-city support for law-and-order policies.

This Mother’s Day, Black Lives Matter Activists Will Give More Than 30 Women Their Freedom – The Nation

May 12, 2017May 12, 2017African American Politics, Criminal Justice ...

These women are in jail not because they’ve been convicted of a crime but because they can’t pay to get back to their lives as they await trial.

Fla. Apologizes to ‘Groveland Four,’ Men Wrongly Convicted of Rape in 1949 – The Root

April 25, 2017January 15, 2019African American Commuities, African American History ...

In 1949 in Groveland, Fla., four men—Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, Charles Greenlee and Ernest Thomas—were wrongly convicted of raping 17-year-old Norma Padgett in Groveland. Three of the men were imprisoned and another was shot and killed by a group of white men. They became known as the Groveland Four.

Law passes in NY mandating that police interrogations be recorded on video – New York Amsterdam News

April 19, 2017African American News, Criminal Justice ...

All police questioning in major crimes must be recorded on video during the entire time that a suspect is in custody, under a law approved Monday by legislators in New York, according to an official with the Innocence Project.

“I’ve Read The New Jim Crow … ” – Slate

April 18, 2017African American Commuities, African American News ...

How to tell if a prosecutor is only pretending to be a criminal justice reformer.

Can Baltimore curtail police killings by defying Trump? – The Guardian

April 12, 2017African American Commuities, Black Crime ...

Kevin Cooper was killed by city police at age 14 in 2006, but his death has vanished into obscurity. Now there’s hope for reform to prevent such cases – if it can withstand Trump’s insistence on ‘law and order’.