From NYT: Millions of Americans suffered a loss of wealth during the recession and the sluggish recovery that followed. But the last half-decade has proved far worse for black and Hispanic families than for white families, starkly widening the already large gulf in wealth between non-Hispanic white Americans and most…
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“… Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number – Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few.” ~from The Mask of Anarchy, Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819 (8)
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Mareshia Rucker, center, and Stephanie Sinnott, right, are two of the four students who came up with the idea of an integrated prom in Wilcox County, Ga. Wilcox County high schoolers are having their first integrated prom tonight. Let’s wish them good luck! Have a fun night of dancing and…
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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 The New Yorker: A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital…
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Sunil Tripathi and his mother, Judy Tripathi. Brown University student Sunil Tripathi (right) was at one point accused by Reddit users of being a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, despite no evidence. From NBCNews: “It’s had a huge cost on our family. We are all very depleted right now,…
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From The Dallas Observer: To spot the difference, you’ll have to go to building 18, where all but one unit is leased to renters of Middle Eastern or South Asian descent. Most of the other buildings have none. The federal government thinks this is by design. According to a lawsuit…
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From The Micro Aggressions Project: The thing is: people actually had jumped to conclusions, fueling both suspicion and violence across the country. Multiple social networks and communities on the internet began to conduct their own searches for suspects in photographs. Most of these “suspects” turned out to be brown people…
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