† 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 CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. The Torture of Mumia Abu-Jamal Continues off Death…
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From ThinkProgress: Since the last SOTU, the economy has created 1.9 million private sector jobs. The top 1 percent take home 24 percent of the nation’s income, up from about 9 percent in 1976. Private sector job creation under Obama in 2011 was larger than seven out of the eight…
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From Rethinking Schools Blog: Rethinking Columbus was banned by a school district: Tucson, Arizona. According to journalist Jeff Biggers, officials with the Tucson Unified School District ordered that teachers pull the book from their classrooms, evidently as an outcome of the school board’s 4-1 vote this week to abolish the…
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From BlackStarNews: Gingrich knows it’s impermissible for prominent politicians to use the N-word in the 21st century to describe Black folk. But Gingrich knows there are other ways of using the N-word; through codes. He has developed the best code-speak for the N-word. He does it so well that he’s…
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From ThinkProgress: Faith in Public Life reports that more than 40 Catholic leaders and theologians across the country are calling on two of their “fellow Catholics,” GOP contenders Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, to stop using divisive rhetoric about race and poverty on the campaign trail. Noting that Catholics consider…
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