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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 [...]

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Alex Heard is an editor at Wired magazine. He has also edited and written for The New York Times Magazine, Outside, The New Republic, Slate, and many other publications.
Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargesia, Somalia in 1981 and was educated in the [...]

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 [...]

Citizens and law enforcement work to combat violent crime in Detroit. DETROIT (WXYZ) – A community effort is underway in Detroit where leaders are trying to take back the streets in the wake of recent violent crimes.
The effort follows Monday night’s wild police chase and two reported attacks on elderly women over the weekend.
During a [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

The Sean Bell shooting incident took place in the New York City borough of Queens on November 25, 2006, in which 3 men were shot a total of fifty times by a team of both plainclothes and undercover NYPD officers, killing one of the men, Sean Bell, on the morning after his bachelor party, and [...]

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Listen to an interview with James T. Paris on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show
James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History emeritus at Brown University, where he taught for thirty years. His research interests include political, legal, and social history, as well [...]