Tag: legal system
First But Not Last: Black Girls See Themselves In Court Pick
In 2013, as she watched President Barack Obama's second inauguration, 7-year-old Veronica Bofah decided she wanted to be just like him. She would go...
Accountability was Evident in Arbery’s Case but No Justice
The justice system worked, in the Ahmaud Arbery case after 74 days, because it was forced and pushed to do its job.
By Roger Caldwell,...
White Missouri officer convicted in Black man’s 2019 death
By Heather Hollingsworth, Associated Press
A judge on Friday convicted a white Kansas City police officer of involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the...
How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism
By Eurie Dahn, The College of Saint Rose
Using punctuation and capitalization as a form of protest doesn’t exactly scream radicalism.
But in debates over racial...
Petition Seeks to End Practice of Charge Stacking
Turning one crime into many is easily done, and with this in mind a prosecutor can easily circumvent laws of double jeopardy in order to lump, for example, drug offenses with conspiracy – some laws like this are broad and easily manipulated to fit many cases – gun use, money laundering, and a laundry list of other charges together.