Monday, April 13, 2020

Criminal Justice and Racism and Ageism and other discrimination related links 041320



Black Soldiers Were the Real Heroes at San Juan Hill. And They Got No Credit.

World must prepare for biological weapons that target ethnic groups based on genetics, says Cambridge University

The Prisoners Forced To Sue for Soap and Toilet Paper: Prisoners have filed suit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections due to unsafe living conditions and inadequate medical care.

Naming the Threat: The scourge of police violence targeting Black women

Why Diversity Training Isn’t Enough: Addressing inequality requires more than consciousness raising.

The U.S. health care system has codified racism since its pre-Reconstruction beginnings, when treatment was used as a means of controlling newly freed Black Americans. Today, Black citizens must navigate institutions that still devalue their lives, pain, and needs -- and it's making our country sicker.

Examining the Demographic Compositions of U.S. Circuit and District Courts

We don’t need another racist president: Is Michael Bloomberg, the man who saw potential suspects in every Black and brown face, all that different from Donald Trump?

Tainted jailhouse informants must be reined in: Too many wrongful convictions trace their roots to informants who lied their way out of prison.  Continue reading →

Why wealth equality remains out of reach for black Americans

Former Mass. US attorneys toss the ol’ political football around: “All of this posturing avoids a long-overdue debate about how to decrease federal sentences across the board.”

MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination | NBC News

Louisiana Judge Who Fessed Up to Using Racial Slurs Against Black Employees Resigns

An algorithm that grants freedom or takes it away

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

Let’s not censor Dr. King’s life even as we glorify him: He sought to transform America and that forced him to be a disrupter — and to bear the wounds of being unpopular in a just cause.

Johnson: Nathaniel Woods is dead and now we confront who we are

Black history in the spotlight at CHEER

100 Women of the Year

Michael Milken: Could it Happen Again?

Power to the People

As Dawn Butler discovered, you can't call out racism – it's just too rude: When did stating facts become impolite?

The Ray Charles Foundation Donates One Million Dollars to Help the Next Generation of Medical Doctors

Supreme Court Rules Black People Are Not Citizens

The Abortion Doctor and His Accuser: What does it mean to take women’s claims of sexual assault seriously?

Jewish student’s lawsuit describes years of anti-Semitic harassment at elite NJ school

The little-told story of the Tuskegee weathermen

James Thindwa, a Man Who Did What Needed to Be Done—And Said What Needed to Be Said: In These Times lost a friend. But his words live on.

Our View of Black History Has Radically Shifted in a Few Short Years: The case for reparations and The 1619 Project have focused attention on what makes African Americans distinct.

Bookerism and the Black Elite: Managing race relations from above

Is It Too Late for Bernie Sanders to Win Over Black Voters?  Black voters and suburban women are the base of the post-Trump Democratic Party that Sanders wants to lead. If he doesn’t have a strategy for winning them, he’ll lose again.

Incarcerated Women and Girls, 1980-2016

DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency: The Department of Justice has secretly asked Congress for the ability to detain arrested people “indefinitely” in addition to other powers that one expert called “terrifying”

Alabama executes Nathaniel Woods despite outcry from activists nationwide: Advocates including Martin Luther King III and Kim Kardashian West sought to stop state from putting man to death

Bailing Out: Criminal justice reformers are rethinking the crusade against cash bail.

Policing and the English Language: The poisonous contradictions of coptalk

Race, Again, in North Carolina

Prejudential Black History

Coard: Philly DA, police chief curing, FOP sickening

Why Nationwide Voting by Mail Isn’t a Silver Bullet in a Pandemic

Trump loves to tout red tape cuts, but $40 million for Natives to fight COVID-19 stuck in Catch-22

BLAME IT ON THE WHITES

NY attorney general launches hotline for people to report discrimination related to coronavirus: “No one should live in fear for their life because of who they are, what they look like, or where they come from," Letitia James said.

Feds to quarantine all new inmates for 14 days to try to guard against COVID-19 in prisons

Courts consider compassionate prisoner release, but many inmates have nowhere to go: A compelling case has been made for the immediate release of elderly, infirm, and immune-suppressed inmates. But many of these people have no families or homes to go to.

Court limits set by SJC safeguard our rights while protecting our health: "The application of justice is not perfect, and in rendering decisions involving competing constitutional rights, the courts must sometimes balance these competing interests."

Suffolk DA Rollins stumbles in taking shot at prison disciplinary process: "Most of these types of cases concern technical security breaches, which might put staff — not inmates — at risk."

A Message From VFP

About Us: “Walking in a High Heel and a Moccasin” – An Indigenous Voice Judith LeBlanc

H.R.748 - CARES Act - TEXT

H.R. 748: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act - Summary

Taking Back International Women’s Day: Women’s Day was begun by U.S. socialists; it’s time we reclaimed it.


Since Emancipation, the United States Has Refused to Make Reparations for Slavery: But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.

Inside a Murder Trial in Krasner-Era Philadelphia: Not long ago, a poor black man charged with the murder of a wealthy white man wouldn’t have a chance at justice. Times have changed.

The Roots of Organizing: The Young Lords’ revolution.

When a Virus and Virulent Racial Supremacy Collides

Marching against Oblivion: International Women’s Day in Mexico City

On Diversity

On anniversary of MLK's death, his words are 'more relevant' than ever, his son says: Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Five decades later, his family says in a new video, he can help "guide humanity in the right direction."

Texas racist says coronavirus fears made him stab an Asian American family as they grocery shopped

Morning Digest: Mirroring Trump, Texas GOP candidate's ad fans anti-Chinese racism over coronavirus

Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate: No, the coronavirus is not an “equalizer.” Black people are being infected and dying at higher rates. Here’s what Milwaukee is doing about it — and why governments need to start releasing data on the race of COVID-19 patients.

Lightfoot On Chicago COVID-19 Deaths: More Than Half Were African American

'It's a racial justice issue': Black Americans are dying in greater numbers from Covid-19.  The coronavirus can infect anybody but African Americans are dying in disproportionate numbers, especially in certain big cities

The One Sin White Evangelicals Couldn’t Forgive Barack Obama For

Kentucky man faces federal charges for child pornography, just months after Republican pardon

Two black men kicked out of Illinois Walmart, presumably for wearing protective masks

Sadly, the Neo South Shall Rise Again

Two Locals Brewing Company aims to be one of the first Black-owned breweries in Philly

Treachery: Murder, Cocaine, and the Lucifer Directive

Color of Covid: The racial justice paradox of our new stay-at-home economy

2 comments:

  1. Post-Sentencing Litigation for Relief of disabled veterans with PTSD/TBI and other Mental Disorders..what is the most current status with a Legislative Bill/Draft?

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  2. Post-Sentencing Litigation for Relief for Veterans with PTSD/TBI medical disorders...Whats' the most current status for getting an acceptable Legislative Bill-HB/SB?

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