Tag: race
Crack, Mass Incarceration and Black Trauma: Jeffrey’s Story
Jeffrey Calhoun has been shot seven times and sent to prison three. Had he ...
Drive to Free Black Woman With Marijuana Life Sentence Exposes “Habitual Criminal” Laws
“Give a mother the chance to hold her child again.” So reads a petition, ...
Don’t Blame Protests for COVID—Defund Police for Communities’ Health
Hundreds of thousands have gathered across the country this summer to protest the police ...
Kamala Harris Was Mocking “Schools Not Jails” Not So Long Ago
When Kamala Harris was still San Francisco’s district attorney in 2010, she delivered a ...
Study: Overdose Deaths Stratified Among Latinx People
At first glance, national data suggest that Latinx people are suffering fewer fatal overdoses ...
Black Residents Subject to 97 Percent of Marijuana Arrests, Citations in Albany
While the state of New York decriminalized marijuana possession for personal use in 2019, ...
End Civil Asset Forfeiture to Defund the Drug War
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends ...
New Jersey Bill Could Belatedly Release One in Five People From Prison
On July 30, the New Jersey state Senate voted in favor of a bill ...
“Trail of Death”—A Short Film About COVID, Nicotine and Racism
This short documentary, concerning COVID-19, smoking, vaping and racism in America, was co-directed by ...
The Political Fight to Avoid an Evictions Catastrophe
The next crisis is fast approaching: one of evictions. On July 24, the federal ...
