Civil Rights & Social Justice

Wayne Gardine and Jabar Walker were exonerated in separate cases after serving a combined 50+ years in prison for murders they didn't commit. 

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Participating in prison education decreases the chances of recidivism by 6.7 percentage points – from 46% to 39.3%.

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Young Black men represented 93.9% of firearm-related homicide victims in Chicago and 79.3% of gun homicides in Philadelphia.

It costs more money to live on your own than it does to share your space with a partner. This is known as the “singles tax.” 

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Healing from racial trauma can help reduce the negative impacts of racism and provide the emotional resources to challenge injustices.

Truckers were racially profiled in South Dakota.

Video footage from a South Dakota Denny's shows two Black men having cops called on them after a white waitress refused to serve them and kicked out of the restaurant: “They’re serving everybody else.”

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The pan-Afrikan psychologist addressed Black men, women and the Black family structure.

#BlackLivesMatter

Police in Aurora, Colorado, killed Jor'dell Richardson, 14, in a shooting a coroner called a homicide. Bodycam footage shows Richardson telling cops, "You got me," seconds before he was shot.

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States incarcerated Black people for violent offenses at a rate over six times that of white adults by 2019.

According to a new study, senior Black men have a considerably higher chance of dying after surgery as compared to their white counterparts.

In just two days, three men of color were killed by LAPD, one of which involved a Black man who was having a mental health crisis.