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CI: Smoke and Mirrors
† 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…
Revelations
Retired lab chimps see the sky for the first time Steel yourselves, animal lovers. A few weeks ago, we told you that the National Institute of Health recommended that a majority of government-owned lab chimps be retired in the near future. For 111 of these chimps, the largest group ever…
International Women’s Day: “But When the Sea Turns Back…”
A Woman Speaks By Audre Lorde ~ Moon marked and touched by sun my magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave my shape behind. I seek no favor untouched by blood unrelenting as the curse of love permanent as my errors or my pride I…
Prison Profiteer, GEO Group, Buys Name Rights to FAU Stadium
A Football Stadium Becomes Ground Zero in the Fight Against the New Jim Crow, The Nation: A sit-in at the university president’s office; calls for their resignation; a packed, campus-wide meeting that resolves nothing and opens the door to further conflict. Such actions are notable enough on their own, but…
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Findings —From Harper’s, the March 2013 issue In Britain, … heavy rains were washing Scottish hedgehogs from their nests, a flock of sheep adopted a young deer at Dunwich Heath, two dragons hatched in Cambridgeshire, and two men were charged with hare coursing in Lincolnshire, where the feet and heads…
LISTEN: This Week’s Oral Arguments in Shelby County v. Holder (Audio/Transcript)
From The Oyez Project: The Fourteenth Amendment protects every person’s right to due process of law. The Fifteenth Amendment protects citizens from having their right to vote abridged or denied due to “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The Tenth Amendment reserves all rights not expressly granted to the…
White Supremacy Unwilling to Die: Voting Rights Act Imperiled
The Neo-Confederate Supreme Court Gearing Up to Restore White Rule Over America, Alternet: If white rule in the United States is to be restored and sustained, then an important first step will be the decision of the five Neo-Confederate justices on the U.S. Supreme Court to gut the Voting Rights…