A black woman has been charged and convicted of records tampering after falsifying her address so that her children could go to a better public school. She was initially charged with theft of $30,000 worth of public education. She spent 10 days in jail and an Ohio parole board has…
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Two law suits have been filed against Thomas M. Cooley Law School and New York Law School for misleading law-students about job prospects. According to the complaint against New York Law School, the school has: consign[ed] the overwhelming majority of [its students] to years of indentured servitude, saddling them with…
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Be sure to catch Justice Putnam of the Justice Department on Sundays 8-9pm & Mondays 9pm-12am. (7)
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MLK in Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy): “With Selma and the Voting Rights Act one phase of development in the civil rights revolution came to an end. A new phase opened, but few observers realized it or were prepared for its implications. For the…
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People of Color Organize has a new podcast up from Dr. Jared A. Ball discussing his new book, I MIX WHAT I LIKE!: A MIXTAPE MANIFESTO. We discuss the major themes of this important work such as; emancipatory journalism, Internal Colonialism Theory, the role of propaganda on a colonized population,…
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No criminal charges have yet been filed. The U.S. is set to sue the top banks behind the ponzi scheme of selling worthless bundled securitized mortgages to investors. But where are the criminal charges for the fraud committed against ordinary home purchasers? Where are the criminal charges for the ongoing…
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From The Root: Six years after the federal levees failed and 80 percent of the city was flooded, New Orleans has lost 80,000 jobs and 110,000 residents. It is a whiter and wealthier city, with tourist areas well-maintained while communities like the Lower 9th Ward remain devastated. Beyond the statistics,…
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