Our nation incarcerates more people — over 2.3 million in 2006 — than any other country. Because justice is not equally administered in the United States, Black males are disproportionately represented among America’s imprisoned population, currently numbering 837,000 in state and federal prisons.
As the holiday shopping frenzy begins, one documentary explores the problems of mass consumerism and the exploited foreign labor it depends on.
Earl Ofari Hutchison - Sharpton is a breathing, walking reminder that race still matters in America.
We should replace the Thanksgiving Day feasting with fasting and create a National Day of Atonement to acknowledge the genocide of indigenous people that is central to the creation of the United States.
WASHINGTON — Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.
Thousands of demonstrators encircled Justice Department headquarters in the nation’s capital on Friday to demand the government crack down harder on hate crimes.
LAKEPORT Leaders from several branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) spoke in a press conference regarding the Renato Hughes murder trial on the courthouse steps in Lakeport Wednesday.
Environmental justice means no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less benefits than others. Race and class tell you where to find good stuff (like parks and trees) and the bad stuff (like power plants and waste facilities).
Civil rights leader and environmentalist Van Jones talks about suburban sprawl, race and the future of cities.
Georgia Supreme Court rules his sentence was cruel and unusual. Finally.
Women in jail can suffer slow and painful deaths for treatable and simple illnesses as a result of the horrific state of prison health care.
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