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National In States Where Marijuana Has Been Legalized, Black Men Still More Likely to Be Hit With Drug Charges
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National Life Sentences Destroy Black Families and Communities: A Proposal to Limit Prison Sentences to 20 Years
featured Instruments of Torture: Since Slavery, White Supremacy Has Been a War of Power Against Black Men in America
featured Perfectly Legal: From Slave Codes to Tamir Rice Case, Laws on the Books Have Been Designed to Uphold White Supremacy, Keep Black People Oppressed
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featured Obama ‘Bans the Box’ and Gives Ex-Offenders an Unprecedented Second Chance to Re-Enter Society
National The Beginning of the End of the War On Drugs? UN Agency Advocates Drug Decriminalization, Says War on Drugs Violates Human Rights
featured Fifty Years After Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s ‘The Negro Family,’ Black Mass Incarceration is the Order of the Day
National President Obama’s Review of Solitary Confinement Signals Possible Reform of America’s Dungeons
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