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Profiles in Fearnew

Long after education and life experience have bestowed upon me a much greater understanding of the psychology of race-related fear and the racial profiling that happens inside people's heads on a daily basis, I am still vulnerable to the old impulses.
Metroland  |  Stephen Leon  |  12-04-2014  |  Commentary

Rewriting the Racial Justice Act

Supporters of a proposed North Carolina Senate call it a rewriting of the Racial Justice Act. Passed by the N.C. General Assembly in 2009, the Racial Justice Act sought to ensure that "no person shall be subject to or given a sentence of death or shall be executed pursuant to any judgment that was sought or obtained on the basis of race."
YES! Weekly  |  Keith T. Barber  |  12-07-2011  |  Race & Class

The Grass Gapnew

People all over Chicago smoke pot—but almost everyone busted for it is black.
Chicago Reader  |  Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky  |  07-07-2011  |  Race & Class

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