A Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) client who served time in a modern-day debtors’ prison in Alabama when she couldn’t pay fines for minor traffic tickets told her story to congressional staffers on Capitol Hill and called for action to prevent others from going to jail simply for being poor.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took a pause from campaigning on Feb. 7 to visit Flint, Mich
Better use of technology and data could help solve the problem of mass incarceration.
Black Panther Party’s legacy of Black Power endures
youth dancers perform for Black History Month
Kwame Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit, claims Michigan governors Jennifer Granholm and Rick Snyder knew about Flint’s water problems long before they received national and international attention because of the water’s high lead content.
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) mourns the loss of member Michael J. Feeney, a former reporter for The New York Daily News, immediate past president of the NABJ, and a past recipient of NABJ’s Emerging Journalist of the Year Award.
Standing on sacred ground
Black America and the class divide
Shocking development released about the grand jury involving Tamir Rice