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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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† 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…
NYPD Stop and Frisk Unconstitutional
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Media and the Fourth Amendment: “A Cop Done Frisked my Sister Nell…”
A cop done frisked my sister Nell, but Whitey’s on the phone… http://t.co/LnihuwvztK — Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) August 10, 2013 This NSA Scandal Is A White People Problem by Tommy Christopher, Mediaite In case you hadn’t heard, the National Security Agency is Red-Wedding-ing Americans’ freedom by backing up phone records…
The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks, Finally Her Own
A Family Consents to a Medical Gift, 62 Years Later Henrietta Lacks was only 31 when she died of cervical cancer in 1951 in a Baltimore hospital. Not long before her death, doctors removed some of her tumor cells. They later discovered that the cells could thrive in a lab,…