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Prosecutors Sue Mississippi for “School to Prison Pipeline”

From Democracy Now: The Justice Department is suing state and local officials in Mississippi for allegedly violating the rights of children — especially black and disabled — with routine and...

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GOP Misogyny: Republican Embrace of Rape Culture

“A rape culture is a complex of beliefs that encourages male sexual aggression and supports violence against women. It is a society where violence is seen as sexy and sexuality as violent. In a rape...

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Supreme Court to Consider Ending Voting Rights Act

From ABC/Yahoo: The Supreme Court could say as early as Monday whether it will consider ending the Voting Rights Act’s advance approval requirement that has been held up as a crown jewel of the civil...

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The Early Success of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Policy

From CAP: In just the first two months, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received and accepted for processing 179,794 deferred-action requests. That’s 18.9 percent of the 950,000 immediately...

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‘Heckuva Job Brownie,’ Please Have a Seat and STFU

Thank you, Melissa. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Related Posts: MHP Tells George Will to Set Down the White Man’s Burden The Romney Doctrine on Foreign...

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Draft Dodger Mitt Romney’s Vietnam and the 100th Day of the Romney...

GET OUT THE VOTE AND BRING THIS THING HOME View CMP’s 2012 Election Voter Toolkit Related Posts: Let’s Re-elect President Barack Hussein Obama Mittens Gives Gracious Concession Speech President Obama:...

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A People of Color Majority Alters Politics. Movements Change the World

From Colorlines: Black voters turned out overwhelmingly for Obama. Millennial voters, who represent the start of the next demographic phase, did too. Republicans are blaming each other for losing the...

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Thanksgiving Takeaways

From Indian Country Today: The U.S. has long treated Indian religion and creation stories as quaint myths, but it sure holds dearly to its own mythical stories of creation. The colonizer’s myth of the...

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The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-to-Prison Pipeline

From Colorlines: Cedrico Green can’t exactly remember how many times he went back and forth to juvenile. When asked to venture a guess he says, “Maybe 30.” He was put on probation by a youth court...

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CI: Standing Up to “Stand Your Ground”

† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of...

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CI: “A Life Lived Deliberately”

† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of...

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CI: How to Convey the Horror?

† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of...

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Hacker Group Anonymous Leaks Chilling Video in Case of Alleged Steubenville...

Warning: this video contains disturbing content From Democracy Now: We turn to Steubenville, Ohio, where members of a high school football team allegedly raped an underage girl and possibly urinated on...

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Poll Shows Voters Expect, And Want, Gun Laws

From The Hill: In The Hill Poll, 49 percent of voters asserted that current gun laws are too lax, against 35 percent who said they were about right. The gun laws were judged to be too strict by 11...

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Roe v Wade and the New Jane Crow: Reproductive Rights in the Age of Mass...

Excellent article in the American Journal of Public Health by Lynn M. Paltrow: IN HER BOOK THE NEW JIM Crow, Michelle Alexander argues that the system of mass incarceration in the United States, fueled...

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Obama Gun Control Proposals Unveiled, Marking Biggest Legislative Effort In A...

From HuffPo: The proposal, which comes at the end of a month-long review process spearheaded by Vice President Joe Biden, is broken down into four key subsections: law enforcement, the availability of...

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85% of Americans Overwhelmingly Support Sensible Gun Control Measures

From Rachel Maddow’s Blog: A Pew Research Center report released late yesterday found a majority of Americans support a wide variety of new measures, some by enormous margins. For example, 85% of...

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Gallup: Americans Support President Obama’s Gun Reform Proposals

From TPM: Given a choice to vote “for” or “against” nine of President Obama’s key proposals to reform the nation’s gun laws, Americans support all of them, a new Gallup poll released Wednesday found....

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Obama Hails Bipartisan Plan to Overhaul Immigration

From NYT: There were hints in Mr. Obama’s speech of potential fault lines in the debate. He declared, for example, that there must be a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants “from the outset.”...

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Georgia man shoots and kills young Latino who accidentally pulled into his...

From NBC: Rodrigo Diaz, 22, was driving around with his girlfriend and two friends when he pulled into a driveway, thinking they had arrived at another friend’s house, his brother says. But instead he...

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