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On the last day of June, 2021, Bill Cosby was released from prison after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in his favor on a technicality in his sexual assault conviction. They did not rule that he was not guilty of…
The crux of the issue comes down to money and where Major League Baseball chooses to invest it. Seventy-four years ago, in 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers signed Major League Baseball’s first African American player in the modern era: Jackie Roosevelt…
On January 20, 2021 the first WOMAN was sworn in as Vice President of the United States. It was an historic day. One I thought I would never see in my lifetime, especially after Hilliary Clinton was beaten by Donald…
We employ critical race theory or CRT as a tool for interrogating the presence of Hip Hop music in NBA stadiums because it centers the discussion on race and racial inequalities from the perspective of non-white people. CRT is also…
An important voice in the debate about exploitation comes from Professor Harry Edwards. He put it thus: For decades, student athletes, usually 17-to-19 year-old freshmen, have informally agreed to a contract with the universities they attend: athletic performance in exchange…
Join Dr. Earl Smith, Dr. Howard Henderson, Keturah Heron, and Cherise Fanno Burdeen for the final installment of Policing Black Bodies. Thursday, September 10, 2-3:30 PM for a conversation about the history of the police, the impact of militarization, and…
From the rose garden Donald Trump tells the public that whites are killed more often by the police than Black people. White people are 60.4% of the U.S. population. Black people are 13.4% of the US population. This means that…
Join Us July 14, 2020 4:00 pm ET for a Free Live Discussion Policing Black Bodies II: Race + Pretrial Practices Featuring Policing Black Bodies co-authors Drs. Angela Hattery and Earl Smith Panelists: Cherise Fanno Burdeen, Executive Partner, Pretrial Justice…
Earl Smith, PhD (2020) Black youth are currently confined in the criminal punishment system 3X white youth[1] Blacks get longer sentences than whites[2] Blacks are confined in solitary confinement more often than whites[3] Blacks (men) comprise a larger percentage of those exonerated…
DJ McAneny Published Jul 1, 2020 at 3:55 pm As race and inequality take their place in the forefront of national conversation, two University of Delaware sociologists published their timely study of the nation’s policing of “Black bodies.” The choice…