Integration, Segregation, [De]Humanization
Officer Craig Davis, a former municipal policeman now with the Houston school district force, monitors a hallway at E.L. Furr High School in Houston, March 20, 2013. As school districts across the country consider placing more police officers inside schools, youth advocates and judges are concerned about [...]
On April 29, 1992, at the Ventura County courthouse in Simi Valley, home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, a jury of ten whites, one Asian and one Latino delivered not guilty verdicts in all assault charges but one against four Los Angeles (LA) police [...]
How we remember the history of school segregation can be a mystery. What we do and have done to change our history – that is the greater mystery. By Christopher Bonastia| Originally Published at Huffington Post Black Voices. January 11, 2012 When I tell people here in [...]
Alexander poses a thought-provoking and insightful thesis: Mass incarceration, justified and organized around the war on drugs, has become the new face of racial discrimination in the United States. Since 1970, the number of people behind bars in this country has increased 600 percent. What [...]
Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D. | Originally Published at Huffington Post. Black Voices. August 4, 2011 07:54 AM ET | Updated October 4, 2011 Black America is in crisis. In a recent study, the National Urban League reported that almost all the economic gains made by African Americans [...]
History offers lessons. It inspires. And it lives. — Recy Taylor (1944), Gertrude Perkins (1949), 15 year old Flossie Hardman (1951), Betty Jean Owens (1959), Joan Little (1974) #SayHerName People keep saying, 'We need to have a conversation about race'…I want to see a white man convicted [...]
By Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D. | Originally Published at Huffington Post. September 13, 2010 05:37 PM ET | Updated: May 25, 2011 I have not been able, until now, to understand fully the debate about President Obama's religious commitments. How some Americans move seamlessly from [...]
Indiana University freshman Margaux J. unleashed these fiery words in May 2006 after a campus judicial proceeding on her allegations of rape. It wasn’t that the two administrators running the proceeding panel didn’t believe her. In fact, they did. The panel found the [...]
TASER International Inc. maintains that its stun-guns are “changing the world and saving lives everyday.” There is no question that they changed Jack Wilson’s life. On Aug. 4, in Lafayette, Colo., policemen on a stakeout approached Jack’s son Ryan as he entered a field of [...]
