For several years, UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernández has reached into Los Angeles history, back before the city was even city or California was even...
By Richard Wembe Johnson, San Quentin State Prison It’s quite apparent that most of you have come to the conclusion that you have all the...
(Salon) – Voting matters. Though many Americans believe that voting is either useless or merely a civic duty, in reality it carries huge consequences for...
Colin Campbell, BUSINESS INSIDER (Business Insider) — Presidential candidate and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) blasted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday over her...
Colin Campbell, BUSINESS INSIDER (Business Insider) — Presidential candidate and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) blasted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday over her...
JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — Four-year-old William Cole saw his father’s face and reached out to touch it during a jail visit....
JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — Four-year-old William Cole saw his father’s face and reached out to touch it during a jail visit....
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Freddie Gray is neither the first, nor will he be the last person to die in police custody. According to...
(CNN) – President Bill Clinton on Wednesday conceded that over-incarceration in the United States stems in part from policies passed under his administration. Clinton signed...
(CNN) – President Bill Clinton on Wednesday conceded that over-incarceration in the United States stems in part from policies passed under his administration. Clinton signed...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Mass incarceration in the United States is counterproductive and disproportionately causes a long-term injury to Black Americans and...
Juliet Linderman, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Teenagers awaiting trial on adult charges in Baltimore are being kept in solitary confinement for far too long —...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist I know from firsthand experience that the “criminal justice system” today in the United States is in serious...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the last two decades mass incarceration, a system that has a disproportionate negative impact...
EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press RONNIE GREENE, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — On a hot Friday last July, a parolee was mowing a lawn in...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call (FinalCall.com) – In 2014 Black America’s suffering increased at the hands of angry White men...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call (FinalCall.com) – In 2014 Black America’s suffering increased at the hands of angry White men...
Rebecca Boone, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP)—When Congress passed a law in 2003 aimed at ending sexual assault in U.S. prisons, jails and juvenile detention centers, survivors...
By Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed The United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. It has come down a sliver...