Racial Injustice

New!!!  Crime, Race and the Perils of Profiling by Tim Wise

Minority men falling behind academically, study finds

You won't believe this - well, maybe you will.  Two young black women sentenced to two consecutive life terms for an $11 robbery in Mississippi. 'So Utterly Inhumane'

Update:  Rally aims to sway Barbour on pardon for sisters

The Blame Frame: Justifying (Racial) Injustice in America: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/crcl/vol41_2/hanson.pdf

Study of certification in Chicago once again documents racial bias and how most offenders are not violent. 

http://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/Cover%20Stories/d/Seventeen

New study shows racial inequality runs deep in Mississippi: Framing Race in Mississippi

A series of articles on the Sean Bell Case

Special web page by the Sentencing Project on Racial Disparity: http://www.sentencingproject.org/IssueAreaHome.aspx?IssueID=3.  See especially "key publications" in PDF format.

15 year old black girl sent to prison for shoving teacher aid

Jena, Louisiana Case: A series of news stories