Roughly 200 people gathered at the University of North Carolina at Asheville recently to discuss the city’s commitment to local reparations. It…
Continued destabilization of the climate is certain to reciprocate the same kind of unstringing for communities below, leading to deeper racial and economic inequities, and more crime and poverty
I’m not sure how you can talk and walk around race when in North Carolina right now it’s easier for a black teenager to go to jail than it is for him to vote
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In the McCutcheon v. FEC case about campaign contribution limits that will be heard tomorrow by the U.S. Supreme Court, the primary…
As state governments seek to reduce their reliance on costly incarceration to meet criminal justice goals, the private prison companies that contract…
This week, former Secretary of State Colin Powell — a Republican who served under President George W. Bush — called out North…
The youth organizers of the Dream Defenders civil rights collective stood their ground and slept on the grounds of the Florida state…
The now-neutralized "preclearance" provision of the Voting Rights Act that allowed the federal government to review proposed election changes in jurisdictions with…
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama endorsed New York City police commissioner, and stop-and-frisk cheerleader, Ray Kelly as an adequate replacement for…
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