Over the last couple weeks, North Carolina’s GOP has successfully passed a bill that essentially repeals the state’s landmark Racial Justice Act (RJA). Orginally passed in 2009, the RJA allows death row inmates to present evidence, most importantly statistical patterns, that prove racial bias played a major role in their trial and sentencing. Nearly all of […]
Author / Rania Khalek
Over the last 23 years more than 2,000 wrongfully convicted individuals in the United States have been exonerated, according to a new study by the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of law. The schools also launched the National Registry of Exonerations, an incredible website where a […]
ICYMI, here’s my article published at Truthout over the Weekend. It’s about Gary Freeman, a 1960s black civil rights activist who is banned from re-entering Canada, where his entire family lives, because of the unsubstantiated claim that he’s a former member of the Black Panthers Party. The consequences of America’s racist history still linger deep […]
I wrote a piece for Salon this week about a black man named John McNeil. He is serving a life sentence in Georgia for shooting and killing a white man that assaulted him and his teenage son on their property. Like Florida, Georgia is a pro guns rights and stand your ground state, yet this […]
Here is my in depth article on Rekia Boyd published last week at Truthout. Her family has since filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago which you can find more about here. “Her death certificate says killed by police, but I feel like my sister was murdered,” says Martinez Sutton, whose 22-year-old little sister, […]
Less than a month after the shooting of Trayvon Martin, another unarmed black citizen was gunned down in Chicago. Last week 22-year-old Rekia Boyd was shot in the head by an off-duty Chicago detective. She died the following day. Police say that the officer in question drove up to a group of people in Chicago’s Douglas Park […]
My latest article from truthout: On Wednesday, January 24, the Occupy movement joined theNational Prison Divestment Campaign in 13 cities across the country for a nationwide day of action that gave a voice to an invisible segment of the 99 percent exploited by the private prison industry. The National Prison Divestment Campaign was organized less than a […]
Crossposted From AlterNet: Two cities have their hands full preparing for the upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions later this year. As officials in Tampa, Florida, make plans to manage an estimated 15,000 protesters expected to descend on the city during the four-day Republican gathering in August, their counterparts in Charlotte, North Carolina, are ramping […]
Crossposted from AlterNet: Virtual charter schools, which offer classes online instead of in a classroom, have become the fastest-growing segment of the charter school industry. And while data on their effectiveness is scarce, state legislators across the country are passing laws to expand cyber schools at the behest of privatization advocates and online education companies […]
Crossposted From AlterNet: Five longtime activists are challenging a federal law that defines a wide spectrum of peaceful – and in some cases, otherwise lawful – animal rights activism as acts of terrorism. They say that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) violates their First Amendment right to free speech and has had a chilling effect on […]
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