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The United States has roughly 70 million Americans who have been convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony. Of course with each conviction, all crimes are different, however regardless of how non-threatening the crime is…
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Mass incarceration is a major civil rights issue. A primary reason for the surge in the American prison population is the federal law mandating minimum sentencing.
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In the past several weeks, the history of the Confederate States of America and its icons have been the center of attention nationwide. Shortly after the racially-charged massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, where…
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Fifty-Four years ago this week, NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers was assassinated in the driveway of his home in Jackson, MS. Two trials of Evers' assassin, Byron De La Beckwith, ended in hung juries in 1964.
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From a Birmingham jail, Dr. King once wrote, “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and when they fail in this purpose, they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social…
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Welcome to 50 Weeks of Actions! You have pledged to join us in improving our communities through peace and direct action. Over the next 50 weeks, we will explore our MLK50 platforms: poverty, better jobs & higher…