Monday, March 26, 2018

Criminal Justice and Racism links 032618



REV. WILLIAM BARBER IS GIVING NEW LIFE TO MLK’S DREAM


 

Police Killing of Unarmed Native American Continues To Receive Little Media Attention


 

There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label: It's been used to define and separate people for millennia. But the concept of race is not grounded in genetics.


 

‘Alt-Right’ Ringleader Richard Spencer: We Attract the Mentally Ill.  The new documentary ‘Alt-Right: Age of Rage’ explores the violent rise of the ‘alt-right’ in America and how white nationalists feel emboldened under President Trump.


 

Black Students Get Unexpected Response After Sharing Video of White Classmate Spewing Racial Slur


 

Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750,000 Meant To Feed Inmates, Bought Beach House


 

Neo-Nazi Group Implodes Over Love Triangle Turned Trailer Brawl


 

A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn


 

Black History Month: Why it Still Matters


 

Religious conservative makes human trafficking a culture war talking point


 

Tax cut will widen the racial wage gap


 

Economic Anxiety Didn’t Make People Vote Trump, Racism Did: New data provide a compelling answer to this vexing question.


 

Queen Nzinga: The West African Leader Who Fought Off Imperialist Slave Traders


 

The South is Rising Again


 

Trump’s immigration policy in brief: Total racist shutdown: Forget “illegal” immigration: Trump and Miller’s real goal is a clampdown on nonwhite immigrants, documented or not


 

Pan African Film Fest Offers Cinema’s Other ‘Barrow Gang’


 

LeBron James Flips the Script—Again: Fox News’s Laura Ingraham’s telling him to “shut up and dribble” elicited a sharp response not only from James but from much of the sports world.


 

No Jail For Texas Teen Who Lied About Being Raped By 3 Black Men


 

Oregon banker out at Wells Fargo after he’s revealed to be a Nazi who marched at Charlottesville


 

Unarmed black man shot to death in own backyard after police mistake cell phone for weapon


 

She told cops they were vitamins. But botched test kept Florida mom in jail for months. 


 

Farrakhan gets a pass on anti-Semitism: Many progressives look the other way and fail to denounce the minister’s bigotry.


 

The Left’s Farrakhan Problem


 

Why Tamika Mallory Won’t Condemn Farrakhan: To those outside the black community, the Nation of Islam’s persistent appeal, despite its bigotry, can seem incomprehensible.


 

Why Won’t Women’s March Leaders Denounce Louis Farrakhan’s Anti-Semitism?


 

Objection! The Word of God Doesn’t Belong in a Courtroom


 

Controlling Bodies: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie


 

It’s Long Been a Man’s World. Can Women Save It?


 

Little Hell on the Prairie


 

ACLU Calls for North Carolina Prisons to Lift Ban on The New Jim Crow


 

Nearly 20 Percent of Americans Think Interracial Marriage is ‘Morally Wrong,’ Poll Finds


 

Federal Judge Tosses Liberty Counsel’s Lawsuit Over ‘Hate Group’ Label


 

Judge Reinstates Iowa Christian Student Group That Rejected Gay Member


 

Calif. Court Allows Baker To Discriminate


 

This White Tech Guy Has an Idea to Make Tech Less White


 

Watch Sacramento police officers shoot Stephon Clark (camera 2 version).  WARNING: Graphic content. This is the view from camera 2 of the shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, by Sacramento police in his grandparents’ backyard. The shooting occurs after the 8-minute mark.


 

Tucker Carlson Explains Why White People Aren’t ‘Designed’ to Live Around Immigrants


 

Innocent Man Awarded $1 Million After Spending 31 Years In Prison: The award was described as “bittersweet” by his attorney.


 

Started in 1937 by textile magnate Wickliffe Draper, the Pioneer Fund's original mandate was to pursue "race betterment" by promoting the genetic stock of those "deemed to be descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the Constitution."


 

Remembering the assassination of MLK 50 years later: This year marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee. Take a look back at the news coverage from that day.


 

Dorothy Butler Gilliam The critical role of the black press in the civil rights movement has not received the attention it deserves: Black journalists put themselves on the dangerous front lines of the civil rights movement so the sacrifices of activists would not go unnoticed.


 

Record number of black women are candidates in Alabama: They're fueled by Democrat Doug Jones' stunning upset Senate win, the #MeToo movement, opposition to Trump and a desire to carry on Obama's legacy.


 

‘Hope and Fury’ documentary chronicles coverage of civil rights movement: Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Lester Holt hosts a documentary airing this weekend on the civil rights movement and how it was captured by television news.


 

Bloody Sunday: A flashback of the landmark Selma to Montgomery marches: On March 7, 1965, civil rights activists organized a march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama to press for voter registration rights for African Americans in the south. However, they were violently confronted by local authorities along the way.


 

The dangerous game of Betsy DeVos


 

How Trump got it wrong about Lawrence


 

Rest in power Marielle Franco: The black human rights activist assassinated in Brazil


 

Australia considers visas for white South African farmers, claiming they need help from 'civilised country': Home affairs minister Peter Dutton says group face 'horrific circumstances'. But South Africa’s foreign ministry insists 'threat does not exist'


 

“Whites will come back here with their tails between their legs. We will hire them‚ because we will be the owners of their farms when they come back to South Africa.” Malema.


 

Sources: Zinke tells employees diversity isn't important


 

Why Steve King Keeps Winning: In the controversial congressman’s district, bluntness resonates.

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