Pandemic No ‘Excuse’ to Grant Prisoners Early Release, Mississippi Governor Says
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves rejecting calls from a bipartisan coalition of criminal-justice reform organizations to reduce the State’s prison population. If he does not, the New York-based FWD.us warned in a late April report, nearly every prisoner in State custody could have the virus by May’s end, and around 200 could die.
Lesson of Ahmaud’s Slaying: White People Must Do Work Themselves
James Baldwin reminded us in 1956 that “there are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.” Being black in America is a challenge no other person on Earth could quite understand. While we are not […]
