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In 1822, when prison reformers in New York proposed the nation’s first juvenile institution, they saw the need to keep children separate from adults as “too obvious to require any argument.” The juvenile justice system was founded on the idea that young people are capable of change, and so society has a responsibility to help them ...
11 Inspiring Black American Heroes. Here are Black American heroes to celebrate this month — and every month. 1. Claudette Colvin. Claudette Colvin, Civil Rights Activist, speaks at the Embrace ...
“The Black Girl Survives in This One,” a short story anthology edited by Saraciea J. Fennell and Desiree S. Evans, is changing the literary horror canon. As self-proclaimed fans of “Scary ...
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long ...
Ashlee Banks. December 28, 2023 at 1:12 PM. Take a look at some rulings in cases that stunned the Black community. This year, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered several decisions that will ...
CBC Television. Release. October 18, 2023. ( 2023-10-18) Black Life: Untold Stories is a Canadian television documentary series, premiered on CBC Television on October 18, 2023. [1] Created by Leslie Norville, the eight-episode series profiles Black Canadian history. [2]
13th is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Ava DuVernay. The film explores the prison-industrial complex, and the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States"; [3] it is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the ...
Gustaf Kilander. A gruesome video has been released of a fatal police shooting of a Black teenager found sleeping in a reportedly stolen car. The FBI and federal prosecutors have launched a civil ...