Nylah Burton, Bustle Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix. Featured Image [dropcap]Ava[/dropcap] DuVernay’s new Netflix docuseries When They See Us depicts the heartbreaking story of the 1990 Central Park Five case in which a group of young Black and Latinx boys were convicted of a crime that they did not commit. Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, […]
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A San Francisco school where black studies start young | San Francisco Examiner
“I want my students to stand up for people who can’t stand up for themselves,” said Gail Meadows, principal of the Meadows Livingstone School.
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New Year Brings Hope and Pushes for Proper Implementation with First Step Act | AFRO
George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Wesley Bell laughs during his speech after being sworn in as St. Louis County Prosecutor during a New Year’s Eve celebration on Tuesday, Jan. 01, 2019 in St. Louis, Mo. Between jokes Bell took a serious note, stating there is a lot of work that needs to be done. Photo by […]
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Senate Passes Bipartisan Criminal Justice Bill | The New York Times
Nicholas Fandos , The New York Times [dropcap]WASHINGTON[/dropcap] — The Senate overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday the most substantial changes in a generation to the tough-on-crime prison and sentencing laws that ballooned the federal prison population and created a criminal justice system that many conservatives and liberals view as costly and unfair. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The First […]
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The Cost of School-to-Prison Pipeline: Racially Biased School Suspensions Cost Taxpayers $35 Billion Each Year
The increasingly harsh, zero-tolerance policies adopted by American school systems in the last decade have led to record numbers of suspensions, expulsions and school-based arrests in the nation’s most vulnerable populations.
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Racial Bias and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Black students and Black students with disabilities have the highest probability of being suspended or expelled from schools statewide.
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