2015/03/22 – More of the nation’s blacks and Latinos have health coverage and fewer are victims of crime, but in overall wealth and employment there are stark disparities compared to whites, according to the newly released State Of Black America 2015. “There …..
2015/03/19 – (Jackson, MS) – In light of the hanging death of Otis Byrd from Claiborne County, Mississippi, the NAACP Mississippi State Conference has released the following statement: From Derrick Johnson, President, NAACP Mississippi State Conference “The Mississippi NAACP calls …..
2015/3/11-The shakeup continues. Ferguson City Manager John Shaw resigned Tuesday night, the latest in a series of resignations and firings that have taken place in the wake of a scathing Justice Department report that condemned the Missouri city for repeated constitutional …..
Innocence is not enough to get you out of prison. 2015/3/11-In May, the Innocence Network will hold its annual conference at a glitzy Hilton in Orlando, Florida. Lawyers, students, and activists from all over the country who work to overturn …..
2015/03/10 – Reading the headlines out of Madison, Wisconsin, it’s hard not to think about Ferguson, Missouri. But law enforcement’s response to the shooting of 19-year-old Tony Robinson will not unfold in the same chaotic, violent and distrusting way as the …..
