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Grand Scale Pardons Issued Week of Juneteenth Celebrations
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) will be issuing a mass pardon for more than 175,000 marijuana convictions Monday. The pardons will be one of the country’s biggest acts of clemency involving the drug that’s now widely used recreationally. The pardons fall on the same week as Juneteenth celebrations across the country, which symbolizes the end of slavery.…
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In Commemoration of Juneteeth
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.”– Rosa Parks | Do Black Codes continue today? Is everyone equally free? https://choicesinterlinkingforyouth.org/policy-reform-2/race-wrongful-convictions/
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What is the Historical Context of Racial Disparities, Black Codes and the Justice System?
How and why did criminal justice disparities happen? https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/black-codes-and-pig-laws/ How and why did unequal access to fair housing happen? Based on The Color of Law, and <20 minutes.: Segregated By Design
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Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal is not an Isolated Affair. It Prompted the Beginnings of A Movement to Save the Earth. The Creation of the EPA Was One of these Beginnings
Premiered April 22 at 9PM ET on PBS, PBS.org, and the PBS App- Offers important lessons we need today. Poisoned Ground chronicles the story of Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y., where residents discovered their homes were built on a toxic chemical waste dump, leading to health crises. The documentary highlights how ordinary women…
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All are One, Be Alike to Everyone, SSB
Why do racial profiling and racial disparities continue? African Americans make up 13 percent of the general population, but more than 40 percent of the homeless population (National Alliance to End Homelessness) Homelessness adds to the risks of incarceration contributing to Black youth facing an 83% increased risk than their white peers (National Network for…
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Water Week is Near – Week of April 8
The access to clean drinking water is a civil right, yet communities of color are disproportionately impacted by the lack of this access. What can be done to rectify this?
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