From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted- and Hillary Clinton supported- decimated black America. thenation.com By Michelle Alexander February 10, 2016 Excerpts from article To make matters worse, the federal safety net for poor families was torn to sheds by the Clinton administration in its effort […]
Least We Forget
The New York Times October 20, 2015 By Timothy Williams Excerpts from article More than 130 police chiefs, prosecutors and sheriffs-including some of the most prominent law enforcement officials in the country-are adding their clout to the movement to reduce the nation’s incarceration rate. Asserting that “too many people are […]
Police Leaders Join Call to Cut Prison Rosters
Time Magazine February 1, 2016 By Josh Sanburn Excerpts from article High lead levels can lead to developmental problems and brain damage, and children under the age of 6 are considered especially vulnerable. Local cases of Legionnaires’ disease, a potentially deadly form of pneumonia, spiked after Flint switched its water supply. Ten […]
The Toxic Tap
Reuters January 25, 2016 By Brendan Pierson Excerpts from article The water scandal in Flint, Michigan has many of the ingredients for a mass, class-action lawsuit:danger signs that may have been ignored, many thousands of potential victims, the possibility of lifelong health problems, and the alleged systemic failure of people in […]
Plaintiffs’ lawyers wary of taking on Flint water scandal
Time Magazine February 1, 2016 Viewpoint By Michael Moore The people of my hometown, Flint,Mich., are being poisoned. Let me not minced words:This is a racial crime.If it were happening in another country, we’d call it ethnic cleansing. Flint is a very poor, majority African-American city, and the Republican governor of Michigan, Rick […]
“This is a Racial Crime”
Reuters By Jilian Mincer and Eric M. Johnson December 29, 2015 Excerpt from the article Most U.S. police receive little or no training on how best to handle crises involving the mentally ill despite the growing frequency of such encounters and the fatal results in a number of recent cases. […]
U.S. police get little training to handle crises with mentally ...
The New York Times By Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Michael Corkery December 22, 2015 Excerpts from article The use of arbitration by the companies is the latest frontier in a legal strategy orchestrated by corporations in recent years. By inserting arbitration clauses into the fine print of consumer contracts, they have […]
Sued Over Old Debt, and Blocked From Suing Back
Wall Street Journal By Douglas Belkin October 27, 2015 Excerpts from article About two-thirds of the African-American students who enter a historically black college or university failed to finish in six years, but for those who graduate, such schools do a better job preparing them for life after college than […]
Historically Black Colleges Offer Rewards for Those Who Finish, Study ...
In order to locate a cancer cure as well as a cure for other diseases afflicting society, as many members of the society should be enlisted to locate a cure. As long as America fails to properly educate segments of the population, this lessens the intellectual resources required to locate a cure. […]
Finding a Cancer Cure
The New York Times By Katie Rogers October 13, 2015 Excerpts from article Officials in a small Texas town are questioning a decision by the police to use a Taser on a member of the City Council before charging him with resisting arrest. The City Council in Prairie View, Tex.,will hold a […]