Monthly Archives: August 2012

Justice Department Finds Incarceration of Black Schoolchildren in Mississippi “Shocks the Conscience” | Equal Justice Initiative

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Meridian police automatically arrest public school students when called by school officials, often without determining if there is probable cause. Students are then put on probation, sometimes without proper legal representation, and are required to serve any subsequent suspensions from school in the juvenile detention center.

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Twelve Things You Should Know About Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan

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Ryan (R-WI) was the architect of the GOP budget, which the New York Times has described as \u201cthe most extreme budget plan passed by a house of Congress in modern times.\u201d…

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Is it time for UNITY to go?

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I’m writing this on a plane returning from Las Vegas, the site of the 2012 UNITY Journalism conference — the quadrennial event that gathers news professionals from across a panoply of different cultures for social sharing, professional networking …

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Does the Black Church Keep Women Single, Lonely and Vulnerable? A New Book Claims that it Does – K.I.K

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by Dr.Boyce Watkins, BlackBlueDog.com Deborrah Cooper is the author of an interesting new book: “The Black Church: Where Women Pray and Men Prey.” Cooper has……

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7 Predictable Ways That The Media Portrays Black Olympic Athletes

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1) As sob stories. I do not know the financial histories of the parents of any White Olympic athletes. Not one. For Black athletes, it seems that the media places it central to their bios…if they even…

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