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Not Your Typical “Driving While Black” Story
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Black Youths Attending Princeton Conference Pulled Over by Police, Then This Happened [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mumTehxIgcQ” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] You are riding in a car with some friends, and you get pulled over by a cop. What do you do? A group of members from the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) responded to this predicament by exercising transformative justice,…
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Blow the Whistle on Stop and Frisk Today
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1 min read
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network will be blowing the whistle on the NYPDs “stop and frisk” program. It is estimated that every day 2,000 New Yorkers 2000 of color get unconstitutionally stopped by police in the war on drugs. Organizers Carl Dix and Cornel West are calling on thousands of people in New York and…
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Solutions Are Available But Will We Pay Attention?
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“Every once in a while, a dramatic news story can actually produce real reform. More often the momentum peters out once the story disappears from the news (remember how Sandy Hook meant we were going to get real gun control?), but it can happen. And now, after the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown…
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