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.
The formerly colonized peoples of the planet say No to US bullying, sanctions and regime change. âThe âThird Worldâ sees the US as a monster.â
Unwilling to accept Chinaâs rise, the US puts its lie machine on full blast and moves towards war.
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Systemic oppression, from slavery to mass Black incarceration, has led Black women to value self-reliance, said Dr Ashlee Davis, supervising psychologist at Fordham Universityâs co
In response to protests, the eastern North Carolina city of Greenville has discontinued its ties to the Pentagonâs infamous 1033 program that funnels military weapons and equipment to local police.
