From NYT: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 80, vowed in an interview to stay on the Supreme Court as long as her health and intellect remained strong, saying she was fully engaged in her work as the leader of the liberal opposition on what she called “one of the most activist…
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Sonia Sanchez: “Middle Passage” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P98JZhWUijY (7)
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5oth Anniversary of the March on Washington March on Washington Original Coverage (15)
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Demonstrators rallied Thursday on the steps of City Hall in support of the City Council’s anticipated votes on policing issues. | Michael Appleton for The New York Times From NYT: The New York City Council voted on Thursday to override the mayoral vetoes of two bills that will greatly increase…
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From NYT: Deploring the rising costs of a college education, President Obama vowed on Thursday to try to shame universities into holding their prices down and to eventually use federal student aid as leverage in that effort. Speaking at the University at Buffalo, where tuition and fees now total about…
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From Scotus Blog: FURTHER UPDATE 4:35 p.m. The text of the motion to intervene in the San Antonio redistricting case is here. The legal complaint of the U.S. as intervenor is here. The text of the new lawsuit against the Texas voter ID law is here. ————– The Justice Department…
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† 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. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at…
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From Racialicious/Janell Hobson: It is amazing that [Russell] Simmons could not have predicted the outrage upon seeing such a video–which infers that, in order to build an Underground Railroad network to free the slaves, Tubman basically used blackmail against her white slaveowner by conniving with a fellow male slave to…
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