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Bad Cops, Good Cops

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Margaret Talbot, December 21, 2015 Issue, The New Yorker In early November, 2014, Craig Futterman, a law professor at the University of Chicago, got a call from someone who worked in law enforcement in that city. The caller told Futterman about a squad-car dashboard-camera video from a few weeks earlier, which showed a police officer shooting to death a seventeen-year-old … [Read more...] about Bad Cops, Good Cops

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, October 2015 Issue, The Atlantic Monthly American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they've failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it's time to … [Read more...] about The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

How Segregation Destroys Black Wealth

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THE EDITORIAL BOARD, 15 SEPT. 2015, THE NEW YORK TIMES Americans commonly — and mistakenly — believe that well-to-do black people no longer face the kind of discrimination that prevents them from living anywhere they can afford. But a federal housing discrimination complaint filed last week by the National Fair Housing Alliance shows that this toxic problem is very much with … [Read more...] about How Segregation Destroys Black Wealth

THINK OUT LOUD

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Michael Eric Dyson, 9 September 2015, The New Republic TWENTY YEARS AGO, less than two years after I’d received my doctorate in religion from Princeton, I appeared with Cornel West, Derrick Bell, and bell hooks in an illustration accompanying an article in The New Yorker about the rise of a new generation of black public intellectuals. Those were heady times. “A new African … [Read more...] about THINK OUT LOUD

Sandy Speaks

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Debbie Nathan, August 12, 2015, Boston Review “Good morning, my beautiful kings and queens!” This is how Sandra Bland often began the more than two dozen videos she made before she was found hanged in a Texas jail on July 13. For months she posted the videos on Facebook and tagged them #SandySpeaks. I “met” Bland the day her death went viral on social media. I was … [Read more...] about Sandy Speaks

Police Shootings Are About Class as Well as Race

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Rev. Jesse Jackson, Founder and president, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, 08/11/2015, The Huffington Post After three days of peaceful demonstrations marking the one year anniversary of Michael Brown's fatal shooting in Ferguson, Mo., yet another African-American man was shot by police there. While the facts are still unclear, the tragedy will surely add to the national protests … [Read more...] about Police Shootings Are About Class as Well as Race

Failure to address first land-grab undermines BEE

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BY PHAKAMISA NDZAMELA, 11 AUGUSTI 2015, BUSINESS DAY (SOUTH AFRICA) THERE are many papers and books on black economic empowerment (BEE), but one has yet to hear of a major deal that has benefited the first people to be dispossessed in SA, the Khoi and San. The failure to address the genesis of colonial theft in this country undermines the BEE project. What it means is … [Read more...] about Failure to address first land-grab undermines BEE

10 truths about Europe’s migrant crisis

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Patrick Kingsley, Monday 10 August 2015, The Guardian (UK) British ministers including Theresa May and Philip Hammond have made hair-raising claims about the dangers of migrants entering the country. But do the facts bear them out? When you’re facing the world’s biggest refugee crisis since the second world war, it helps to have a sober debate about how to respond. … [Read more...] about 10 truths about Europe’s migrant crisis

‘Marauding’ migrants threaten standard of living, says foreign secretary

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Frances Perraudin, Monday 10 August 2015, The Guardian (UK) Senior Labour figures accuse Philip Hammond of scaremongering after he claims Europe ‘can’t protect itself’ if forced to take millions of migrants The foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, has weighed in to the debate over migration with some of the government’s strongest language yet, claiming millions of marauding … [Read more...] about ‘Marauding’ migrants threaten standard of living, says foreign secretary