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Jul 21 2021
News
Police reform: Why it’s so tough to get – and keep – the right chief
Police reform can sometimes depend on getting the right police chief. But cities might be churning through them too quickly to create real change.
In his 32-year career in the Miami Police Department, Capt. Delrish Moss served under 11 different police chiefs. He learned something from each one, but when he left to become chief of police in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2016, one piece of
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 11 2020
News
The Back Streeters and the White Boys: Racism in rural Canada
St Paul, Alberta, Canada - A map of embedded sorrow seems to crisscross the weary face of 55-year-old Howard McGillvery. But when he smiles - a close to toothless grin - there is a warmth in his dark brown eyes; a sparkling of optimism and unpretentiousness that draws people to him.
He is known in the town of St Paul, Alberta, as the leader of the "Back Streeters"- a name the homeless
Al Jazeera
Jun 15 2020
News
Dozens of newspapers stop publishing mug shot galleries, saying they 'reinforced negative stereotypes'
Dozens of newspapers have announced in recent days that they will no longer publish galleries of mug shots, citing concerns that such reports "reinforced negative stereotypes."
What are the details? The Wrap reported Monday that the Tampa Bay Times, Orlando Sentinel, and more than two dozen newspapers owned by Gannett recently stopped printing mug shot galleries, joining other outlets
The Blaze
Jul 29 2020
News
Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?
Not long after an Alabama lawyer named John Darrington began buying up land in Southeast Texas, he sent enslaved people to work the soil. They harvested cotton and sugarcane, reaping profits for their absentee owner until he sold the place in 1848.
More than a century and a half later, men—mostly Black and brown—are still forced to work in the fields. They still harvest cotton. They
The Marshall Project
Feb 07 2019
News
Virginia Leadership in Crisis as Attorney General Apologizes for Using Blackface
Mark Herring says he wore brown makeup to dress as a rapper in 1980; revelation follows separate controversies for Gov. Northam and Lt. Gov. Fairfax
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jun 05 2020
News
Coronavirus Fears Not A Valid Excuse To Request Texas Absentee Ballots, Appeals Court Rules
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that fear over contracting the coronavirus is not a sufficient reason to request an absentee ballot for the upcoming 2020 elections.
The ruling, issued by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, reverses an injunction that would have granted Texas voters the option of requesting an absentee ballot over fears of contracting the coronavirus if they
The Daily Caller
Jun 30 2021
Opinion
‘Defund The Police’ Was Always A Democrat Scheme, Not A Republican One
White House press secretary Jen Psaki continues to perpetuate the lie that Republicans were the political party set on defunding the police. The White House spin machine appears to be working overtime to ensure this false narrative takes off, but evidence shows that Democrats, not Republicans, are the ones who always wanted to defund the police.
Ever since calls of “all cops are b-
The Federalist
Feb 27 2020
News
Chinese American Churches on the Frontlines of Coronavirus Vigilance
There has been no sustained community transmission of the coronavirus in the United States so far, and many Chinese churches such as Raleigh Chinese Christian Church (RCCC) are doing their best to keep it that way.
Taped to the entrance of the church’s glass doors is a yellow notice with the word “ATTENTION” in capital letters. It warns parents not to bring their children to church if
Christianity Today
Sep 09 2020
News
How a pandemic exposed – and may help fix – inequalities in education
In the early 2010s, Jon Valant, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy, began researching Americans’ perception of the “achievement gap,” mainstream lingo for the difference in educational outcomes between historically advantaged and disadvantaged students.
What he found surprised him.
As a scholar of education, he thought it was clear
Christian Science Monitor
Jan 26 2021
Opinion
Our Government Needs to Prioritize Veteran Wellbeing Over Endless War
“I got out of the Marines and within a few years, 15 of my buddies had killed themselves,” one veteran rifleman who served two tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq between 2003 and 2011 said to me recently. “One minute they belonged and the next, they were out, and they couldn’t fit in. They had nowhere to work, no one who related to them. And they had these PTSD symptoms that made them react in
The Nation