white supremacy

I came across this post by Sara Mayeux, who is guest-blogging for Ta-Nehisi Coates over at The Atlantic.  In it she directs our attention to a podcast by two historians of mass incarceration.  From this podcast, she excerpts for us… Continue reading

Today, “the United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South African did at the height of apartheid…In the District of Columbia, [for example,] it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly… Continue reading