News Archives

Why For-Profit Prisons Have More Inmates of Color  (NPR, March 13, 2014)

Attorney General Holder Urges Changes in Federal Sentencing Guidelines to Reserve Harshest Penalties for Most Serious Drug Traffickers (US Department of Justice, March 13, 2014)

Letter from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice Regarding Durham Police Department (March 12, 2014)

Freedom After 30 Years on Death Row (The Atlantic, March 11, 2014)

Federal Complaint Alleges Police in Wake County Schools Target Black and Disabled Students (Indy Week, March 5, 2014) – Follow Up to January 22nd N&O Article Below  

          Groups File Federal Complaint Over Wake County School Policing
          (News & Observer, January 22, 2014)

Link to Actual Complaint by Legal Aid of North Carolina

From Death Row, A Powerful Letter on Slavery (ReaderSupportedNews.org, March 5, 2014)

NC PDCORE Supports Recommended Policy Changes for Durham Police Department by FADE Coalition (March 4, 2014)

Obama Starts Initiative for Young Black Men, Noting His Own Experience  (New York Times, February 27, 2014)

Seeing Race to Save Our Children (Phillip Goff & Sherrilyn Ifill, Twin-Cities.com, February 24, 2014)

AG Urges Restoring Voting Rights to Ex-Inmates (Yahoo News, February 11, 2014)