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I can’t speak for my Black friends, nor can I speak for all white people, but I can speak as a white person. And, I have decided that I must. Speak! You and I are only a few years apart…
Terry Kupers put it thus (2016:76): Solitary confinement units are the sites of some of the worst racism in prisons. Kupers, Terry. 2017. Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It. University of California Press.
African Americans are over-represented among exonerations. African American men (and some women) get arrested, convicted, incarcerated then spend, 15, 24, 30 and for Ricky Jackson he spent 39 years, three months and nine days in prison for crimes they…
Earl Smith, PhD and Angela J. Hattery, PhD Pre-game season, 2018 and it is on already. At Thursday, August 9th and Friday August 10th NFL pre-games professional football players, in a variety of ways, demonstrated as they have over the…
Since the end of “March Madness” 2018 (4/2/18) when Villanova beat the opposing team Michigan (79-62) there have been approximately 20 Black men killed by the police. During this time other Black men have been tased, beaten and thrown on…
by Earl Smith, PhD and Angela J. Hattery, PhD One of the strangest phenomena of the last several years is having President Donald Trump, President of the United States of America take direct negative aim at Black athletes. Whether…
On Wednesday May 23, 2018 the NFL owners issued a new policy in regards to “kneeling” and threatened to fine teams whose players refuse to adhere to the policy, which reads in part[1]: 1. All team and league personnel on…
Malissa A. Williams (1982- Nov. 29, 2012) by Earl Smith, PhD So that Black women shot & killed by police are not forgotten we have pulled together our data to highlight those Black women who are the victims of…