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The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen charged with felony for science experiment
TweetWhen we talk about the criminalization of communities and people of color, especially African Americans and Latinos in America, we often talk about the criminal justice system in America that disproportionately targets those communities.Schools are often the major accomplices in making this system run with the school to prison pipeline. Nothing exemplifies this more than what is happening to [...]
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[Don't] Stop Snitchin’
Tweet This week, News One is reporting that a community group comprising mostly males and calling themselves the “Detroit 300″ has been mobilizing within their community to help catch rape suspects. Interestingly, to do so they have been actively countering the dominant community creed (and now meme) to “stop snitching” to police on community residents who are known [...]
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In Timor-Leste, communities mobilize to confront domestic violence