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Activism6 months ago

COMMENTARY: Asian Americans, African Americans Know the Hate in America

You may have missed the statistics, though you may have felt it instinctively last August when the FBI released the news. Hate crimes targeting people of...
#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Momentum to abolish the death penalty picks up among conservatives

LOUISIANA WEEKLY — A gathering of anti-death penalty activists this month in New Orleans was to kick-start a movement to abolish the death penalty at the...
#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Discussion Spotlights Vagaries of the Criminal Justice System and Media Complicity

NNPA NEWSWIRE — On a recent afternoon, a distinguished group of panelists spent almost two hours in a conversation exploring the Central Park Five case, the...
#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Trump Levels Racist Attack on Congresswomen of Color in Latest Social Media Screed

NNPA NEWSWIRE — As is his general habit, Trump lies in his communications and brands places where people of color reside as dangerous. President Trump has...
#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us” Wins Mass Attention for Focus on Falsely Accused Central Park Five

NNPA NEWSWIRE — As DuVernay’s film gained viewers and momentum and waves of publicity, Linda Fairstein, the main prosecutor of the Central Park Five, was dropped...
#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five Documentary Set to Debut

NNPA NEWSWIRE — DuVernay, who took on the project after Santana suggested it to her via tweet, wants to dramatize what the criminal justice system and...
#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Black Teens Receive 11 Life Sentences in Crime Where No One Was Hurt

NNPA NEWSWIRE — A 2012 Human Rights Watch report noted that the state of California had de facto sentenced 301 people to die in its prisons...
#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Black Teens Receive 11 Life Sentences in Crime Where No One Was Hurt

NNPA NEWSWIRE — A 2012 Human Rights Watch report noted that the state of California had de facto sentenced 301 people to die in its prisons...
Crime4 years ago

Activists Push for Death Penalty Reform

NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — Community members, organization leaders, and former Angola inmates gathered to discuss issues.
Politics7 years ago

Justices Uphold Use of Drug Implicated in Botched Executions

Mark Sherman, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Supreme Court upheld the use of a controversial drug in lethal-injection executions Monday, even as two...

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