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Michael Benjamin writes that America hasn’t moved beyond the legacy of violence against blacks: http://bit.ly/13Q9HRj
Read Moreby Michael | Aug 21, 2013 | African Americans, Crime, Media, Public Policy, RAce Relations | 0 |
Michael Benjamin writes that America hasn’t moved beyond the legacy of violence against blacks: http://bit.ly/13Q9HRj
Read Moreby Michael | Jul 29, 2013 | African Americans, Crime, RAce Relations | 1 |
Blacks have long been the victims of vigilante justice in America. One night forty years ago, I could have numbered among those victims. Earlier that day, Howard, my freshman homeroom classmate, having just made the JV...
Read Moreby Michael | Apr 11, 2012 | African Americans, Crime, Public Policy | 2 |
Finally! CNN is reporting that George Zimmerman was charged and is in police custody. The Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey has charged Zimmerman with second degree manslaughter in the death of Trayvon Martin. This is...
Read Moreby Michael | Mar 30, 2012 | African Americans, Media, RAce Relations | 0 |
I highly recommend this short essay, “Trayvon Martin, White America and the Return of Dred Scott,” written by Tim Wise places the recent killing of Trayvon Martin in an historical perspective. “The active and putrescent...
Read MorePOLITICO Arena: Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) plans to send House Speaker John Boehner a letter requesting that the House chamber’s dress code be more strictly enforced after Rep. Bobby Rush...
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