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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Rosa Parks was first an organizer for the NAACP who investigated the sexual assaults of Black women by White men. Rape was a ritual of racial terror wielded against the spirits of Black women. Accusations of rape were a tool of racial terror threatening Black men. What remains harder to address is the way sexual violence exists inside Black communi
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By the peculiar logic of racial politics, King raised a cry about restaurant courtesies while accepting death threats quietly as a hazard of his work.
Taylor Branch • Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
One of the most robust findings in criminology is that increasing the severity of punishment has little deterrent effect. People simply aren’t as sensitive to the potential costs of crime as the rational-choice model predicts they should be, and so efforts to reduce it by cracking down have failed to justify the immense fiscal and social costs of m
... See moreThe federal judge went ballistic at sentencing since I pled guilty to the state cases. . . . I was sentenced to 60 years. Not proper, appropriate, fair. . . . I tried to avoid a trial to save the stress to this community, my family, the victims, yet look what is happening. . . . I was a good doctor because my treatments worked, and those patients t
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