civil rights

For Women, Economic Justice a Civil Rights Issue

January 21, 2014

Written by Maya L. Harris for CNN, January 21, 2015. Excerpts of article are below. Read the full article here. “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger?” Martin Luther King Jr. asked almost 50 years ago. As…
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Grant Program May Incentivize More Weed Arrests Among Blacks

June 4, 2013

By Jamilah King, Colorlines “Back in 2010 the NAACP called the racial discrepancy in weed arrests a ‘civil rights issue.’ One year later, to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. War on Drugs, author Michelle Alexander told a crowd of 1,000 at Harlem’s Riverside Church back in 2011, ‘The enemy…
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