New York – It’s on the news every day. Arrests are made for any number of crimes, including drug possession and distribution, aggravated assault, robbery, rape, and murder. Mass incarceration is particularly prevalent within the black community. The Bureau of Justice’s December 2010 “Prisoners in 2009” report illuminates that there are 563,500 incarcerated black men […]
Dr. Martin Luther King’s Birthday: Is the Drug War the Next Big Civil Rights Issue?
With Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday approaching, we are forced to draw connections between the war on drugs and the disintegration of low-income and black communities in America. As Dr. King so poignantly reminds us in his critique of the Vietnam War, “a time comes when silence is betrayal.” With many communities disparately impacted by […]
Locked Out, Locked Up: Black Men in America lecture
Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. will moderate Locked Up, Locked Out: Black Men in America, an annual lecture series presented by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. The event will be held at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown this evening, beginning at 5 pm. Locked Out, Locked Up: […]