Sunday, October 20, 2019

Criminal Justice and Racism links 102019



He had “goals and a vision” Jamel Kirkland is DC’s eighth victim age 11 to 17 to be fatally shot this year

The Latest: Atlantic City mayor resigns after guilty plea

Virginia doctor who prescribed more than 500,000 opioid doses sentenced to 40 years: Authorities say patients were from Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Tennessee.

Why White Supremacists Are Hooked on Green Living: Eco-fascism is fashionable again on the far right, thanks to a rise in global temperatures and anti-immigrant nationalism.

Remember Trump’s Charlottesville Comments? Conservatives Don’t. Why "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams, a Breitbart editor, and others claim the president's "very fine people" remark is a "false memory"

The Myth of Class Reductionism: The fight for racial and gender justice has always been about economic inequality, too.

For Incarcerated Workers, Summer Heat Can Be a Death Sentence

Sanders and Warren Released Criminal Justice Plans This Week. Here’s What’s Good, Bad and Missing.
The plans are a good starting point, but they are far from the finish line.

The Neo-Nazi Murder Haunting Germany: The assassination of a local politician is waking up the country to the threat of the radical right.

The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld’s ‘American Slavery as It Is’ (1838)

The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Starts Its Third Annual Petition Drive for the Abolition of the Interstate Slave Trade and Slavery in Washington, DC, and the Territories (1836)

2 white girls, 10 and 11, accused of hate crime after allegedly assaulting black 10-year-old: ‘I don’t like your people’

Cultural Appropriation Has Become a Tedious Subject

An Activist’s Journey from 1964 Mississippi to Death Row and Back

NFL Teams Are Desperate for Quarterbacks—but Colin Kaepernick Remains Unsigned: As injuries mount, Kaepernick’s political exile becomes more conspicuous.

THIS LOUISIANA GULF WAR VETERAN IS SERVING LIFE FOR SELLING $30 WORTH OF MARIJUANA: Derek Harris awaits arguments in the state Supreme Court about the sentencing, which one judge called ‘unconscionable.’

The forgotten murders of the Osage people for the oil beneath their land

Joshua Brown, a key witness in the murder trial against Amber Guyger, was fatally shot: Days after the former Dallas cop was sentenced to 10 years for killing Botham Jean, Brown was shot outside his new apartment complex.

A Fort Worth Cop Killed A Black Woman Inside Her Home After Her Neighbor Called Police Because Her Door Was Open: “Put your hands up, show me your hands,” the officer said before firing a shot — all in less than four seconds.

George Stinney Jr an Afican American age 14 Wrongfully Convicted Of Murder in 1944

DC joins over 100 cities in changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day

Do I Need Diversity in Every Issue of My Magazine?  And a male teenager asks how about the line between “normal thoughts of sex and objectification.”

Stop Getting Married On Plantations: Monuments to slavery won’t lose their romantic allure until Americans understand the horrors of their own history.

HUD Is Planning a Bureaucratic Pogrom Against Public Housing Tenants: Under proposed new rules, if a single member of a family is undocumented, the entire family can be evicted.

A Sexual Assault Memoir Women Deserve: Chanel Miller’s brilliant account of her assault by Stanford swimmer Brock Turner questions the way we treat sexual assault—and sex itself.

Building America: The making of the black working class.

Pedophiles Continue to be Licensed as Foster Parents in the U.S. to Meet the Demand for Child Sex Slaves

When We Talk About Cultural Appropriation, We Should Be Talking About Power: When the powerful appropriate from the oppressed, inequality is exacerbated.

Epstein Accuser Is Now Naming Names of People She Says Participated in His Sex Trafficking Ring

Steve Bannon warns that women are going to 'take charge of society'

World's First Black Fighter Pilot Honored At Robins Air Force Base

Drill Instructors Punished for Harming Recruits, Making Racist Comments at Boot Camp

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