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This is certainly an interesting political campaign for Mayor in the nation’s capital. In January I wrote a Friday Comment titled The Perils of Bourgeois Politics and this campaign certainly looks like I was dead on in my commentary according to this Washington Post article. Lets keep our eyes on this campaign because it will [...]

MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) – Muskegon community members gathered Thursday evening in response to the recent string of violence in the area. There have been four deadly shootings in recent weeks, among other incidents.
Residents held the peace rally in an effort to make a difference in the community, they told 24 Hour News 8.

City, county Officials [...]

A city does not die when its last resident moves away. Death happens when municipalities lose the industries and vital populations that made them important cities.

(Via www.247wallst.com)
The economy has evolved so much since the middle of the 20th Century that many cities that were among the largest and most vibrant in America have [...]

Antiviolence Ritual From a Faraway Land
By RACHEL CROMIDAS
August 12, 2010
After years of frustration, Cheryl Graves was ready to consider a different solution to Chicago’s problem of youth violence.
Ms. Graves, a community organizer, had spent more than 10 years training representatives of the intervention group CeaseFire and administrators of violence-ridden Fenger High School in conflict-resolution techniques [...]

· An estimated 3.9 million Americans, or one in fifty adults, have currently or permanently lost the ability to vote because of a felony conviction.
· 1.4 million persons disenfranchised for a felony conviction are ex-offenders who have completed their criminal sentence. Another 1.4 million of the disenfranchised are on [...]

Lets continue to support the Michigan Campaign for Justice. Learn their eleven principles of a public defense system.

Congress Approves Crack Cocaine Sentencing Changes
Tribune Washington Bureau
3:19 PM PDT, July 28, 2010
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Washington…Addressing what both Democrats and Republicans agreed was a quarter-century old injustice in drug sentencing, Congress gave final approval Wednesday to a bill reducing the penalty for crack cocaine offenders.
The legislation, which was welcomed by the Obama administration, reduces the disparities between sentences [...]

Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free~Frederick Douglass
Nikki Jones is an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her areas of expertise include urban ethnography, urban sociology, race and ethnic relations and criminology and criminal justice, with a special emphasis on the intersection of race, gender, and justice.
Charles Ogletree [...]

Big differences in health for African American, Latino boys
By Heather Gilligan on Friday, Jul 2, 11:46am
Source: Crosscurrents from KALW News
Health disparities between men of different races are stark, according to a recent report funded by the California Endowment.
The report detailed significant health differences between black and Latino young men and boys and [...]

One Story of Many (Short Documentary): On Gun Violence in Flint and it’s Effect on One family. This is a short documentary created to help bring awareness and hopefully help those in Flint to see that things need to change now. FlintOnTheSpot.blogspot.com