Written consent as a tool of racial equity By Ian A.Mance This piece first appeared on The Durham News website on August 22, 2014. It has been modified to include a video mentioned in the text of the article. City Manager Tom Bonfield’s report to the City Council this week, in which he announced his […]
Forty one years is long enough: Incarceration of Political Prisoners
By Crystal M. Hayes Repost from KultureKritic.com My father, Robert Seth Hayes, is one of the longest held political prisoners in the United States. He has been an inmate of the New York State Correctional system since 1973. He was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. Forty one years is […]
Latino Challenges Toward Racial Equity
Latino Challenges Toward Racial Equity Guest post from Florence Siman of El Pueblo, Inc. We’ve heard it a million times: that Latinos are the fastest growing segment of the US population (or were until just the other day) and that, together with African Americans, we are among the nation’s poorest and sickest, over-represented in prisons […]