racism
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Black mother jailed for trying to enroll kids in suburban high school
Williams-Bolar's case illustrates the inequalities of the education system and to what lengths working-class parents must go to get their…
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Baltimore protest demands justice for Sean Gamble
A crowd of approximately 60 friends, relatives and community activists braved bitter cold weather to demand justice for Sean Gamble,…
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Black teen charged with ‘attempted lynching’ for recording police beating
Jeremy Marks, an 18-year-old African American high school student, was arrested in May 2010 and charged with felony “attempted lynching”…
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LA District Attorney orders Gestapo-style police raid on home of Jeremy Marks
The family of Jeremy Marks awoke on Jan. 26 at 7:00 am to the sound of nearly 30 LAPD cops…
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Baltimore man executed, three wounded over argument with plainclothes cop
Sean “Loz” Gamble, a 22-year-old father, son, brother, fiancée and semi-pro football player is yet another victim of the largest,…
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Victory in Lucasville prisoners’ hunger strike
Just a month after the uprising of Georgia prisoners, a courageous hunger strike by three men locked up at the…
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PSL brings King’s message to ‘official’ MLK rally in Albuquerque
PSL Albuquerque brought the message of Martin Luther King Jr. —opposition to the triplet evils of racism, poverty and war—to…
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Given life sentences for $11 crime, Scott sisters finally released
The racist character of the justice system could not be more evident, given disproportionate sentencing of Black defendants to death…
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Strike is over, but Georgia prisoners’ struggle continues
Georgia inmates' eight-day strike in December to improve prison conditions was a historic and powerful example that struggle is possible,…
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African American teenager victim of ‘community patrol’
On Nov. 19, around noon in the Upper Park Heights neighborhood of Northwest Baltimore, an attack on a 15-year-old African…
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