Last week, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in Falcon v. State that juveniles not convicted of murder may not be sentenced to life in prison, and that even those convicted of murder may not be sentenced to life without parole, citing a U.S. Supreme Court precedent [...]
BY NOW MANY have read and been moved by the extraordinary mea culpa published in the Shreveport Times by a man named Marty Stroud III, who more than 30 years ago sent Glenn Ford to die for a crime he did not commit. “How wrong [...]
3 Arrested at Die-In at Rahm Emanuel’s Office By Yana Kunichoff | Originally Published at In These Times. March 24, 2015 Protesters demand reforms to alleged abuses in Chicago’s criminal justice system, including a discriminatory “stop-and-frisk” program and secret interrogation site. A chaotic scene played out on [...]
Journalists, pundits and authors love to claim how "hard" it is for them to write certain stories. Sometimes this is just a cheap emotional trick to draw in the reader, other times it is a sincere way of acknowledging just how hard it is to [...]
By Harold Jordan | Originally Published at American Civil Liberties [ACLU] of Pennsylvania. March 20, 2015 1:00 PM | Photographic Credit; Officer Sgt. Mark Spain joins students in the lunch room during the day at the Watervliet, N.Y. Elementary School (Skip Dickstein/Times Union) As talk of law [...]
SELMA, Ala. — The memory is as powerful as if it were yesterday. On March 25, 1965, tens of thousands of us gathered before the Alabama State Capitol, the endpoint of a five-day, 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called out, [...]
Last July 4, my family and I went to Long Island to celebrate the holiday with a friend and her family. After eating some barbecue, a group of us decided to take a walk along the ocean. The mood on the beach that day was [...]
Don't imagine that being a racist is something that only happens to other people. By Kali Holloway | Originally Published at AlterNet. March 2, 2015 } Photographic Credit; Integration Crisis; Black and white children at a party to introduce mixed schools during the civil rights movement, Virginia, [...]
By Jonathan Stith | Originally Published at Huffington Post Black Voices. February 11, 2015 12:44 PM EST | Photographic Credit; Getty Images There is a war going on outside -- that no Black youth is safe from. Most recently, we've seen this war played out through the [...]
