Historian, author and activist Paul Street has high praise for James Forman Jr.âs new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Forman is a professor at Yale Law School and a former public defender in Washington, DC. His book âfills a giant hole in the literature,â illuminating the role played by âBlack elites in the rise of the mass incarceration system,â said Street, himself an expert on race and the U.S. penal system. âMany ordinary, working class Black voters in the 70s and 80s have actively supported the racially disparate war on crime and drugs that ended up producing racist mass incarceration,â said Street, whose latest book is titled They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy.
Lawrence Grandpre, research director for the Baltimore-based activist organization âLeaders of a Beautiful Struggle,â agrees in principle with the demand for defunding police but d
Reparations âhasnât reached the point where thereâs really a discussion among white politiciansâ on the merits of the issue, said Zuri Arman Kent-Smith, a writer and activist with
Corporate Democrats may be more dangerous than overt racists, because neoliberals âcloak themselves in the rhetoric of âracial uplift,ââ said Rebecca Ann Wilcox, a community organi
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In light of the Ethiopian central governmentâs military clash with regional forces in Tigray province, Ann Garrison speaks with a member of the Oromo people, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia.
