Tag: american justice system
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The synopsis for a Fani Willis biopic would probably go something like this: In Fulton county, the first Black woman to serve as district attorney takes on an unlikely case.… more ›
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One of four Blackwater employees pardoned by Trump says he ‘acted correctly’ during a deadly 2007 shooting rampage in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/2/blackwater-contractor-defends-actions-iraq-after-trump-pardon more ›
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Homeboy Industries is the largest gang rehabilitation and reentry program in the world and the recipient of this year’s Hilton Humanitarian Prize. https://www.devex.com/news/sponsored/q-a-2020-hilton-humanitarian-prize-recipient-on-creating-cultures-of-healing-97814 more ›
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We saw a man face down on the pavement, pinned beneath a car, and above him another man, a man in uniform, his skin lighter than the man on the… more ›
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This one was shot in his grandmother’s yard. This one was carrying a bag of Skittles. This one was playing with a toy gun in front of a gazebo. Black… more ›
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PHILADELPHIA — Darnell Gates sat at a long table in a downtown Philadelphia office building. He wore a black T-shirt with “California” in bright yellow letters on the chest. He… more ›
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Last October, Attorney General William Barr appeared at Notre Dame Law School to make a case for ideological warfare. Before an assembly of students and faculty, Barr claimed that the… more ›
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The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, strangers began appearing in a parking lot on southern Washington State’s Long Beach Peninsula, at the port where the oyster boats come… more ›
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Before we begin to grapple with the gravity of the impeachment inquiry that is now upon us, can we acknowledge yet again the extreme weirdness of our times? If, through… more ›
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If you want to understand American politics in 2019 and the strain of reactionary extremism that has taken over the Republican Party, a good place to start is 2011: the… more ›