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Hip-Hop Reacts To Meek Mill’s 2-to-4 Year Prison Sentence ~The Game is Rigged

Hip-Hop Reacts To Meek Mill’s 2-to-4 Year Prison Sentence ~The Game is Rigged I just came across the following story published by BET, and it set off a cascade of thoughts and memories that demands that I speak and speak lucidly and boldly on this topic.   Hip-Hop Reacts To …

Private Prisons Suing States for Millions to Stay Full

Private Prisons Suing States for Millions to Stay Full By Terry Shropshire  |  September 26, 2013 8:44 AM EST  |  331 | Courtesy of Rolling Out Low crime rates bad for business for private prisons; they demand states keep them full The prison-industrial complex is so out of control that …

America’s Racial Caste System and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

America’s Racial Caste System and the School-to-Prison Pipeline A friend and brother in the struggle to enlighten, elevate and empower blacks in America and abroad posted a link to the article by Alexander Reynolds in the Huffington Post (See at bottom), with the caption: Agree? Disagree? The initial impetus to …

Study: More People of Color Sentenced to Private Prisons Than Whites

Opening Commentary! We do not have to dig too deep to uncover the wealth of pragmatic and empirical evidence to support the notion being presented here. Michelle Alexander did an exceptional job exposing the existence of a new racial caste that is just as pernicious as slavery and the original version …

Philadelphia Is Not Building a $400M Prison, but Pennsylvania Is!

Philadelphia Is Not Building a $400M Prison, but Pennsylvania Is! The mayor of Philadelphia has gone to great lengths to dispel some fallible accusations that the City’s public school system has cut funding to its schools, while the city has invested millions to build a $400 million prison facility. The mayor …

Michelle Alexander Gives A Fascinating Analysis On How White Privilege Allows Criminals To Go Unpunished

Michelle Alexander Gives A Fascinating Analysis On How White Privilege Allows Criminals To Go Unpunished “Research shows that a White man with a criminal record is more likely to be hired than a Black man without a criminal record. So even this system of mass incarceration when White folks are …

Public Education and the Private Prison Industrial Complex

Public Education and the Private Prison Industrial Complex Dr. Rick Wallace,, Ph.D. discusses the correlation of the miseducation of young black males and the private prison industrial complex. He goes into depth to explain the special education hustle and how this hustle is used to alienate young black males from …

Black Americans Are Arrested More Despite Selling & Using Less Drugs (New Study)

Black Americans Are Arrested More Despite Selling & Using Less Drugs (New Study) We must deal with these issues!     Click here to support the B1 Odssey Project!

Pennsylvania Judge Sentenced For 28 Years For Selling Kids to the Prison System

Pennsylvania Judge Sentenced For 28 Years For Selling Kids to the Prison System Mark Ciavarella Jr, a 61-year old former judge in Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for literally selling young juveniles for cash. He was convicted of accepting money in exchange for incarcerating thousands …