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Sister of Jeffrey Dahmer’s Victim Says She’s Bothered by the Netflix Series About the Serial Killer

by News Headlines | Sep 27, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines

(left) Rita Isbell (right) Jeffrey DahmerPhoto: HLN via YouTube (Fair Use), AP Photo When we denounce the repeated storytelling of slavery and Black trauma through film, we must also consider the recent and highly anticipated Jeffrey Dahmer biopic on Netflix. Why?...

Ex-cop acquitted by all-white jury after killing unarmed Black man

by News Headlines | Sep 27, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines

A former small-town Texas cop has been acquitted of all charges by an all-White jury for the killing of an unarmed Black man. Former Wolfe City officer Shaun Lucas, 24, was acquitted of all charges, including murder, by an all-White jury for the 2020 killing of...

The Persistent Black-White Poverty Gap Hinders African American Access to Higher Education

by News Headlines | Sep 27, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines

Money remains a major barrier in the quest for educational equality in America. With annual costs of more than $75,000 for some private colleges and universities and fees of more than $30,000 at some state-operated higher educational institutions, “sticker shock”...

Blacks Are Vastly Overrepresented in the Long-Term Prison Population

by News Headlines | Sep 27, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines

A new study from The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit organization in Washington D.C., that advocates for effective and humane responses to crime, find that more than 260,000 people in U.S. prisons had already been incarcerated for at least 10 years in 2019, comprising...

Community leaders highlight the urgent need to provide mental health support for Black men and boys | AFRO American Newspapers

by News Headlines | Sep 27, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines

By Reginald Williams, Special to the AFRO “Who else’s son has to die before we see the urgency in the Black and Brown male agenda?” That was the question posed by Martina Van Norden, a mother of two Black sons and passionate educator to a generation of...

How can you research the science of race when bad actors are eager to distort your conclusions?

by News Headlines | Sep 27, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines

There are interesting questions in the population genetics and evolution of different human groups, and it would be nice if there weren’t wretched ideologues who will happily misinterpret every difference between two groups of people, or even two people, to turn a...

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Ex-Minneapolis Cop Thomas Lane Gets Three Years in Prison for Manslaughter of George Floyd | Democracy Now! September 26, 2022
The former Minneapolis police officer who pinned George Floyd’s legs to the pavement while fellow officer Derek Chauvin choked him to death was sentenced to three years in prison by a Minnesota court on Wednesday. Thomas Lane had pleaded guilty in May to a second-degree manslaughter charge in connection with Floyd’s murder in May of […]
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Civil rights law targets ‘cancer alley’ discrimination September 26, 2022
By MICHAEL PHILLIS – Associated Press RESERVE, La. (AP) — Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last seven miles the road passes a massive, rust-colored aluminum-oxide refinery, then the Evonik chemical plant, then rows of white tanks at the Marathon oil […]
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