by admin | May 1, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Read this. Then see this. I want to believe that in an era of overflowing prisons people have finally realized that perhaps punitive approaches to confinement do more harm than good. And I’m glad that homeboy is getting off with a little more than time served. But...
by admin | Apr 25, 2007 | Racial Politics
Felons who have completed their sentences will be able to register to vote in Maryland under a new law signed by Gov. Martin O’Malley yesterday. The law, which takes effect July 1, was one of 178 measures the governor signed, including legislation to require stricter...
by admin | Apr 18, 2007 | Racial Politics |
How many of you have seen this? I take a fairly aggressive stance on Net neutrality. I believe that broadband networks should be free of restrictions on both equipment and nodes of communication. If indeed this neutrality would diminish innovation…then ok. I don’t...
by admin | Apr 7, 2007 | Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
In the wake of the previous week’s discussions shaquanda cotton and black bloggers, I thought I’d end the week with a couple of Nation articles that I found interesting: Politics: Bottom Up Power I had the chance to interview Mayor Coleman A. Young the year he passed...
by admin | Mar 29, 2007 | Racial Politics |
Posts that contain Shaquanda Cotton per day for the last 30 days. Get your own chart! I first heard about the Shaquanda Cotton case through my former student Frederic Mitchell at his spot. I didn’t post on it myself. Rather, I decided to do an NPR commentary on it...
by admin | Mar 19, 2007 | Racial Politics |
We’ve all read stories about people who were freed from prison after DNA evidence exonorated them. Jeffrey Deskovic is one of those cases. Convicted as a teenager for a murder he did not commit, even when evidence in the case should have tossed it out, Deskovic was...
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