Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims crime has gone up in some U.S. cities because the Obama administration was too lenient in sentencing offenders. But the facts don’t back him up, according to Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, in Washington. “It’s discouraging that, in the 21st century, we’re making policy decisions based on sound bites and gut instincts rather than evidence,” said Mauer. “There is no lack of evidence to show that mass incarceration has been counter-productive to public safety and devastating for low-income communities of color.”
The history of the death penalty in America is hewn from the hell of slavery, subjugation and the suffering of black people.
Beginning with the Slave tax, the US has overburdened Black communities with taxes for services that they often don’t get.
The academic laboratory of the Venezuelan coup is housed at Harvard. “Behind every US-backed war on a foreign people there will be a body of scholarly work.”
Black theologian Howard Thurman’s Pilgrimage of Friendship deeply influenced the worldview of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Blacks and Palestinians share a common struggle against colonialism; Venezuelan elections the most transparent in the world; the "hard work" of becoming a billionaire is exploitation.
