The "Strike for Black Lives" was organized or supported by more than 60 labor unions and social and racial justice organizations, which held a range of events in more than two dozen cities. Support swelled well beyond expectations, organizers said, although a precise participation ta...
These would include such matters as racial segregation, poverty, hunger, infant mortality, morbidity, drug addiction, mental illness, suicide, illegitimacy, sexual deviance, welfare services, medical care, crime, justice, and the incidence of areas or regions of social deprivation, and so on. Many...
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explaining the over-representation of African Americans in arrest numbers simply through higher incidence of crime. Walker, Spohn and DeLone’s The Color of Justice dissents that not only are African Americans not anywhere near the disproportionate level of crime that police statistics would indicate,...
The pioneering civil rights leader was a champion of non-violent protest and change, despite the violence he himself suffered.
and his answer was literally, ‘Which block?’… I hope we can find people like my dad to tell the story of the dude on his block and what it was like as a child to see other children of the same age as him outlined in chalk, knowing that there wa...
Reproductive justice, health disparities and incarcerated women in the United States. Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2015;47:213–9. Article PubMed Google Scholar Health disparities and incarcerated women: a population ignored. [editorial]. Am J Public Health 2005;95(10):1679. Sacks V, Murphey D...
Bill Lee, who testified Monday in Zimmerman’s second-degree murder trial, told CNN’s George Howell in an exclusive interview that he felt pressure from city officials to arrest Zimmerman to placate the public rather than as a matter of justice. “It was (relayed) to me that they just wa...
We will recognize holidays, events, memorials and celebrations that represent the diversity of racial and religious heritages of our employees and community, starting with Juneteenth. We began 2021 by honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s commitment to social justice, with a co-op wide call ...
“This is not just a school problem and it’s not just a Riverhead problem, it is an American problem still, but at least in our community we can try to do things that bend toward justice,” Palmer said. By Grant Parpan grant.parpan@newsday.com@GrantParpan Grant Parpan covers Suffolk...