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The Spirit of 1968 Lives on Today in Athletes Like Colin Kaepernick

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|Date: October 20, 2018
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The Spirit of 1968 Lives on Today in Athletes Like Colin Kaepernick

By Jeffery Robinson In 1968, rage over the United States’ treatment of Black America was boiling over. It ...

By Jeffery Robinson In 1968, rage over the United States’ treatment of Black America was boiling over. It culminated that year in a protest at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City that shocked the world ...

October 20, 2018
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Police Brutality against Black Kansas City Man Caught on Video

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|Date: October 16, 2018
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Police Brutality against Black Kansas City Man Caught on Video

By Gillian Wilcox Black people in Missouri are disproportionately stopped or harassed by police. Twenty y ...

By Gillian Wilcox Black people in Missouri are disproportionately stopped or harassed by police. Twenty years of collected data shows Black drivers are stopped at a rate 85 percent higher than white d ...

October 16, 2018
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Washington Supreme Court Abolishes the Death Penalty

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|Date: October 15, 2018
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Washington Supreme Court Abolishes the Death Penalty

By Cassandra Stubbs On Oct. 11, the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously struck down the death pena ...

By Cassandra Stubbs On Oct. 11, the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously struck down the death penalty as unconstitutional, ruling the “death penalty is invalid because it is imposed in an arbit ...

October 15, 2018
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Walking to Work while Black

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|Date: October 11, 2018
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Walking to Work while Black

By Reginald Andrade Last month, I walked across the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to ...

By Reginald Andrade Last month, I walked across the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to get to work. It was an ordinary stroll. But to a bystander, the sight of an educated Black prof ...

October 11, 2018
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President Trump, Stop and Frisk Is Both Unconstitutional and Ineffective

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|Date: October 10, 2018
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President Trump, Stop and Frisk Is Both Unconstitutional and Ineffective

By Carl Takei On Monday, President Trump gave a speech to the nation’s police chiefs. Like so many of his ...

By Carl Takei On Monday, President Trump gave a speech to the nation’s police chiefs. Like so many of his “law and order” speeches, it was fueled by bravado and falsehoods. In the speech, Trump defend ...

October 10, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Consensus is Dead and the Supreme Court Broken, Part 2

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|Date: October 09, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Consensus is Dead and the Supreme Court Broken, Part 2

by Scott Ragsdale Part 2 – But You Can’t Kill the Message. Even if Kavanagh Withdrew If Kavanagh withdrew ...

by Scott Ragsdale Part 2 – But You Can’t Kill the Message. Even if Kavanagh Withdrew If Kavanagh withdrew his name, surely a juror with equally vindictive views about the meanings of life and the cons ...

October 09, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: What the Conviction of Officer Van Dyke for Murder Means

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|Date: October 08, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: What the Conviction of Officer Van Dyke for Murder Means

With everything else happening, many may not have noticed a very consequential jury verdict in the 2014 s ...

With everything else happening, many may not have noticed a very consequential jury verdict in the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago PD Officer Jason Van Dyke. On Friday, Mr. Van ...

October 08, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Consensus is Dead and the Supreme Court Broken

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|Date: October 08, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Consensus is Dead and the Supreme Court Broken

by Scott Ragsdale Part 1 – You Can Kill the Messenger. “What a message to send to the world. “If you are ...

by Scott Ragsdale Part 1 – You Can Kill the Messenger. “What a message to send to the world. “If you are powerful and entitled, just shout loud enough and you will seem genuine. Show enough contempt ...

October 08, 2018
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San Francisco Is a Hotbed of Illegal Race-Based Policing

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|Date: October 07, 2018
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San Francisco Is a Hotbed of Illegal Race-Based Policing

By Ezekiel Edwards Our Constitution promises all people, regardless of race, equal protection under the l ...

By Ezekiel Edwards Our Constitution promises all people, regardless of race, equal protection under the law. Yet the San Francisco Police Department has consistently singled out Black people for enfor ...

October 07, 2018
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Conviction in Laquan McDonald Murder Trial Seen as a Major Step Forward for Reform Efforts

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|Date: October 06, 2018
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Conviction in Laquan McDonald Murder Trial Seen as a Major Step Forward for Reform Efforts

It has been a long time coming – 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot and killed in 2014 by then-Chicago ...

It has been a long time coming – 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot and killed in 2014 by then-Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke. It took a video and over a year to even charge the officer. No ...

October 06, 2018
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Governor Brown Signs Landmark Police Reform Legislation

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|Date: October 01, 2018
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Governor Brown Signs Landmark Police Reform Legislation

California will soon make police misconduct records available to the public and ensure police departments ...

California will soon make police misconduct records available to the public and ensure police departments release of body camera footage of police shootings (Press Release on SB 1421) - Today Governor ...

October 01, 2018
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Greyhound’s Role in Border Patrol Abuse

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|Date: September 29, 2018
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Greyhound’s Role in Border Patrol Abuse

By Chris Rickerd In January 2018, Border Patrol agents boarded a Greyhound bus in Fort Lauderdale, Florid ...

By Chris Rickerd In January 2018, Border Patrol agents boarded a Greyhound bus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and demanded identification from passengers. Videos of the encounter went viral — showing th ...

September 29, 2018
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A School-to-Deportation Pipeline?

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|Date: September 28, 2018
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A School-to-Deportation Pipeline?

By Lance Tran Schools should be safe learning environments, not arenas for immigration crackdowns. Yet ma ...

By Lance Tran Schools should be safe learning environments, not arenas for immigration crackdowns. Yet many of the components of the school-to-prison pipeline that cast students of color into the crim ...

September 28, 2018
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Colleges and Universities Have a Racial Profiling Problem

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|Date: September 24, 2018
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Colleges and Universities Have a Racial Profiling Problem

By Carl Takei We have seen it again and again: A Black or brown person is sitting in a Starbucks, barbequ ...

By Carl Takei We have seen it again and again: A Black or brown person is sitting in a Starbucks, barbequing in a public park, touring a college they hope to attend, or sitting down in the college the ...

September 24, 2018
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A Tale of Two When It Comes to Policing

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|Date: September 23, 2018
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A Tale of Two When It Comes to Policing

By Johanna Miller & Simon McCormack New Yorkers know that the New York Police Department will treat u ...

By Johanna Miller & Simon McCormack New Yorkers know that the New York Police Department will treat us differently depending on our zip code and the color of our skin. But many New Yorkers don’t k ...

September 23, 2018
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Early Snapshot of the 2018 Crime Rate Projects a Decline

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|Date: September 21, 2018
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Early Snapshot of the 2018 Crime Rate Projects a Decline

A report released this week from the Brennan Center for Justice, which analyzes crime data from the 30 la ...

A report released this week from the Brennan Center for Justice, which analyzes crime data from the 30 largest US cities, “finds that across the cities where data is available, the overall murder and ...

September 21, 2018
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Commentary: Advocates Push Back against Trying 14- and 15-Year-Olds As Adults

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|Date: September 20, 2018
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Commentary: Advocates Push Back against Trying 14- and 15-Year-Olds As Adults

There has been a lot of pushback against SB 1391. They will point to a handful of possibly dangerous kil ...

There has been a lot of pushback against SB 1391. They will point to a handful of possibly dangerous killers, who could potentially be released at the age of 25, as a reason to oppose the legislation ...

September 20, 2018
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All Eyes on the Trial of Officer Van Dyke in the Shooting of Laquan McDonald

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|Date: September 19, 2018
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All Eyes on the Trial of Officer Van Dyke in the Shooting of Laquan McDonald

In October of 2014, 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times in 14 seconds on a Chicago street by fo ...

In October of 2014, 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times in 14 seconds on a Chicago street by former Officer Jason Van Dyke. Immediately the police department claimed that Mr. McDonald had b ...

September 19, 2018
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Closing the Double Jeopardy Loophole

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|Date: September 17, 2018
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Closing the Double Jeopardy Loophole

By David Cole and Somil Trivedi The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment states that no one can ...

By David Cole and Somil Trivedi The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment states that no one can be tried more than once for the same crime. The clause is designed to protect people from the d ...

September 17, 2018
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Eating Lunch while Black

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|Date: September 16, 2018
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Eating Lunch while Black

By Oumou Kanoute Enrolling in Smith College a year ago was a dream come true. But rarely has a dream so s ...

By Oumou Kanoute Enrolling in Smith College a year ago was a dream come true. But rarely has a dream so swiftly turned into a nightmare. As I begin my sophomore year, I’m returning to a new slate of c ...

September 16, 2018
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