Monday, April 16, 2018

Criminal Justice and Racism links 041618



Vicki Momberg could be first in SA to be jailed for using k-word


 

FBI US Crime Report for 2016


 

Sources: Zinke tells employees diversity isn’t important


 

Mike Pence's hometown to host gay pride festival


 

Alabama man who survived botched execution will not face another


 

Cops in Tempe, Arizona, now have AR-15s strapped to the back of their motorcycles


 

Forget Wealth And Neighborhood. The Racial Income Gap Persists


 

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara, book review: A brilliant, shattering work of art. The late McNamara dedicated many years trying to solve the case of California serial killer and rapist she’d dubbed 'The Golden State Killer'. Her investigation is detailed in her book, 'I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer'


 


 

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara review – in search of a serial killer: A fanatical quest to identify California’s 1970s Golden State Killer is told in gripping, grisly detail


 

Michelle McNamara’s Search for Truth: The true-crime writer died while hunting for a killer. Her final book is a testament to her gifts.


 

Michelle McNamara's posthumous I'll Be Gone in the Dark is exceptional true crime: EW review


 

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


 

Ex-offenders have right to vote in Pennsylvania


 

Encountering Ghosts in Family Photos, Historical Dolls, and ‘Black Panther’: Mythmaking can connect the past to the present, and reveal a promised future.


 

Folds in the Narrative: Black Panther and Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?


 

A New Chance for Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal: On March 27, Mumia’s lawyers will go to court again.


 

It’s Time to Stop Fixating on Punishment: Trump’s call to execute drug dealers is bizarre and irrational, but so is our criminal-justice system.


 

Translating an Autopsy, or To the Man Autopsied Into 99 Pages


 

Sacramento mayor: "Implied racism" an "undeniable factor" in police shootings


 

A Culture of Violent White Guys: In a country where the violence of certain groups is tolerated, even encouraged, it’s inevitable that tragedies will follow.


 

Black students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School want to be heard


 

2020 Census Will Ask Black People About Their Exact Origins


 

Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid crusader, dies at 81


 

Roland Martin Clashes w/ Fmr. George HW Bush Speechwriter Over Poverty, Diversity & Police Brutality


 

Martin Luther King Jr was a radical. We must not sterilize his legacy


 

UN panel says the U.S. owes reparations to African-Americans


 

Many White Democrats Would Rather Lose Elections Than Share Power With Blacks


 

39% of Prisoners Should Not Be in Prison


 

Racial Blindness: Violent murders in Texas and Maryland show how white killers receive more sympathy than black victims.


 

Police shootings are also part of America’s gun problem: A new Vox analysis finds a correlation between levels of gun ownership and killings by police officers.


 

The Ezra Klein Show: The Sam Harris Debate 


 

AHA Defends Rights of Humanist Inmate


 

Media Advisory: AHA to Present Arguments Demanding Equality for Humanist Prisoners


 

Trump Wants a Football League Where Nobody Kneels. Vince McMahon Is Making That a Reality.  McMahon’s XFL league is set to ban player protests and trample workers’ rights.


 

Ta-Nehisi Coates Made the Case for Reparations—Here’s Who Is Making the Plan: Black scholars and organizers are thinking beyond just a check


 

Drink Your Coffee Black-Owned: A cooperative Atlanta cafe is step one toward an alternative to white capitalism.


 

Guns Have Always Been Vital to Black Political Struggle: From slave revolts to self-defense, Black revolutionary history is often ignored in the gun control conversation.


 

From Harriet Tubman to Black Panther: An artist speaks on heroism in the Black community


 

Similarities Between Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X


 

Cops Arrest 2 Black Men Sitting In Starbucks For ‘Trespassing’: Video.  The Philadelphia DA’s Office said there was a “lack of evidence” that the men committed any crime.


 

Public Policy & Internal Standards


 

The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement


 

Orange City Public Library Pressured to Label, Segregate LGBTQ Material


 

Hundreds in Iowa town urge library to label and segregate LGBTQ-themed books


 

Petition asks Iowa library to segregate LGBTQ books: Orange City trustees looking into policies at other libraries


 

AU Urges Federal Appeals Court To End Discrimination Against Humanist Prisoner In Nevada


 

Local Officials In Alabama Stop Issuing Marriage Licenses


 

Brazilian Court Allows Transgender Jesus Play


 

Race, Religion And Confronting Majority Privilege


 

Floating in the Air: The world that made Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment.


 

Still a Long Time Coming: Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.


 

Trump and Brexit Are Symptoms of the Same Failure to Reckon With Racism: The US and UK remain in denial about race, immigration, and their place in the world.


 

The Insanity Defense: Coming to terms with Ezra Pound’s politics.


 

What to Do About the Police?  Two new books examine the austerity policies and administrative overreach behind the expansion of local law enforcement.

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