by | Nov 11, 2021 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Immigration, LGBTQ Rights, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice, Sex Equality
Photo credit: Chicago Community Bond Fund Carceral pretrial approaches lack evidence of effectiveness—in fact, research identifies that commonplace strategies such as money bail, detention, and even mandatory drug testing hamper pretrial success. In addition, these...
by | Oct 20, 2021 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice
For decades now, directly impacted communities, organizers, public defenders, academics, and others have sounded the alarm on the crisis of mass incarceration in the United States and its devastating effects on people of color and low-income communities, particularly...
by | Apr 8, 2021 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Legislation, Policing and Law Enforcement, Racial Justice
On the morning of March 31st, New York, home to the city once considered to be the marijuana arrest capital of the world, became the 15th state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Just hours later, the Governor signed into law an act dramatically limiting...
by | Apr 5, 2021 | Human Rights, Podcast, Racial Justice
On this episode, Vol. 56 Editor-in-Chief Armani Madison speaks with Professor Spencer H. Boyer, the founder of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and a professor at Howard Law School. They talk about what motivated him to found a civil rights journal,...
by | Mar 25, 2021 | Amicus, Legislation, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice, Sex Equality
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended households across the country and exacerbated long-existing income inequalities. As has been well documented, not all have felt the effects of the pandemic and its corresponding economic crisis the same. Women, caregivers, and...
by | Feb 17, 2021 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Education & Youth, Policing and Law Enforcement, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice
Photo credit: The Imprint This past summer, the broadest protests in U.S. history erupted in response to the murders of Black people, like Tony McDade, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor, at the hands of law enforcement. Calls to defund the police and reinvest those...
