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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks About The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Prison Industrial Complex, Mass Incarceration, Obama War on Drugs, Ronald Reagan, Prison, Richard Nixon, Crack Cocaine, Michelle Alexander, The War on Drugs, Cocaine, Crack, Southern Strategy, War on Drugs Failure, Black Voices News

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 1)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Crack, Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Ronald Reagan, Cocaine, Richard Nixon, Michelle Alexander, Mass Incarceration, Prison, Obama War on Drugs, War on Drugs, War on Drugs Failure, The War on Drugs, Southern Strategy, Politics News

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Supreme Court Weighs Fate Of Crack Dealers

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Video, Supreme Court Cocaine, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Crime, Supreme Court Crack, Crack Cocaine, Miguel Estrada, Fair Sentencing Act, Cocaine, Crack, Mandatory Minimums, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A couple of convicted crack cocaine dealers caught between old and new sentencing regimes had their cases argued before the Supreme Cour...

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Whitney Houston, One Amazing Crack Ho: An Open Letter to John and Ken

Erin Harper | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Crack, Fired, Drugs, Ho, The Voice, Abuse, Death, KFI AM 640, Ken, Apology, Sing, Whitney, Funeral, Greatest Love of All, Apologize, Prostitution, Tupac, Life, John, Suspended, Houston, Chiampou, Kobylt, Shakur, Black Voices News

Until now, I have not written about Whitney Houston, largely because so many others have. However, when I learned that Los Angeles radio hosts, John and Ken of KFI AM 640 had referred to Ms. Houston as a "crack ho", I could not remain silent.

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Kidnapped Teacher Was Choked And Buried In Random, Crack-Fueled Abduction: Affidavit

AP | By MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Montana, Sherry Arnold Messing, Video, Williston, Lester Waters, Sherry Arnold, Fbi, Michael Spell, Billings, Mike Webster, Teacher Choked to Death, Crack, Colorado, Crime News

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Prosecutors are disclosing the first details of what they believe happened to a Montana School teacher who was allegedly choked to ...

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Crack Cocaine Program In Brazil Gets $2 Billion Investment

AP | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Brazil, Crack Cocaine, Brazil Cocaine, Brazil Crack Program, Brazil Crack, Brazil Cocaine Program, Cocaine, Crack, World News

BRASILIA, Brazil -- The Brazilian government says it will invest more than $2 billion to curb the spread of crack cocaine in Latin America's biggest c...

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Crackin' Up -- Police Surprised Where Woman Hid Drug Pipes

Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Spartanburg South Carolina, Crack Pipe in Vagina, Ella Jo Price, South Carolina Crime, Crack Pipe in Private Parts, Ella Jo Price Crack Pipes, Ella Jo Price Pipe in Groin, Weird South Carolina, Crack Pipe in Buttocks, Crack, Drug Paraphernalia Stopped at US Border, Crime News

South Carolina police probably wanted to wash their hands with scalding water and lots of soap after a woman surrendered two crack pipes hidden in dee...

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Change In Crack Sentencing Means 12,000 Inmates To Be Released

AP | JESSICA GRESKO and JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Crack Sentencing, Crack Sentencing Early Releases, Crack Sentencing Overhaul, Video, Crack Cocaine, Crack Sentencing Guidelines, Crack, Crime News

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Antwain Black was facing a few more years in Leavenworth for dealing crack. But on Tuesday, he returned home to Illinois, a ...

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Where Are the Drugs on Wall Street?

Bernard Starr | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Money-Laundering, Economy, Drugs, Crack, Ows, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Cocaine, Occupy Wall Street Drugs, Drugs Occupy Wall Street, Drugs on Wall Street, Drugs on Main Street, Politics News

If the bashers, in their desperate quest to discredit the Occupy Wall Street protest, find a pot smoker here or there in Zuccotti Park, it's small change compared to the drug scene on the Main Street of Wall Street.

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Astoria Characters: The Lady and the Parrot

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Congo African Grey Parrot, Doe Fund, Astoria, Samaritan Village, Laurie Lieberman, Astoria Characters, Mark Twain, Crack, Cocaine, Drug Addiction, Addiction Counseling, Detox, Drug Rehab, New York News

This story is not about Laurie Lieberman, or at least that's what she says. It is, according to her, about Zeus, who has just hopped onto her fingers. Zeus is her 4 ½-year-old Congo African grey parrot.

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From the Crack Dens of Miami to the Royal Shakespeare Company: An Interview With Tarell Alvin McCraney

Johann Hari | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Hip Hop, Gay, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare, Miami, Drag Queens, Crack, Entertainment News

McCraney has made an unusual journey in his life -- from the slums of Miami, where his crack-addicted mother died of AIDS and his brother ended up in jail, to writer-in-residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Ice Cream Parlor Owner Arrested On Suspicion Of Selling Crack

The Huffington Post | Tim Stenovec | Posted 07.04.2011

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An ice cream parlor in a suburb of New York City has been shuttered after authorities raided it on suspicion that the owner was using it to manufactur...

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Drug War Trumps Free Trade in Colombia

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Cafta, Juan Manuel Santos, Alvaro Uribe, Obama, Colombia, Hillary Clinton, China, Brazil, Crack, Cocaine, Nicholas Sarcozy, Aftdea, War on Drugs, Dilma Rouseff, Farc, Marijuana, World News

Renewal of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act is critical if the Obama administration is to maintain its strategic alliance with the world's largest grower of coca leaves.

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Security Guard At Colorado Coalition For The Homeless Busted For Selling Crack On The Job

Face the State | Jared Jacang Maher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crack, Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, Parrish Lee Wright, Crack Cocaine, Security Guard Sells Crack, Denver News

A security guard for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is facing felony drug charges for allegedly selling crack, while he was on the job, to th...

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It's Time to Be Bold: Democrats and Black America

James Rucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crack, ColorOfChange.Org, Disparity in Drug Sentencing, Color of Change, Midterm Elections, Criminal Justice, African-Americans, Jobs, President Barack Obama, Foreclosures, Democratic Party, Democrats, 2010 Elections, Barack Obama, Black Unemployment, Politics News

In the eyes of black Americans, Democrats have not fought hard enough to truly distinguish themselves from Republicans on issues like criminal justice reform and unemployment.

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Reducing Penalties for Crack and Peyote... But When Marijuana?

Rob Kampia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana, Proposition 19, Medical Marijuana, Obama, Marijuana Policy Project, Asa Hutchinson, Clinton, Congress, Mpp, Peyote, Crack, Politics News

How can it be that Congress and the president reduced the penalty for crack in 2010, but it's inconceivable that they'd do the same for marijuana in 2010?

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Crack-Powder Sentencing Disparity: Whites Get Probation, Blacks Get A Decade Behind Bars

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crack-Powder Sentencing, Rep. Keith Ellison, Keith Ellison, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Crack Cocaine, Cocaine, Powder Cocaine, Crack, Politics News

Before coming to Capitol Hill, Rep. Keith Ellison spent 16 years as a trial lawyer dealing with hundreds of cases involving cocaine arrests. After Pre...

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Obama Signs Bill Reforming Cocaine Sentences

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a bill reducing the disparity between federal mandatory sentences for convictions for crac...

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Lamar Smith Derides Reduction Of Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Disparity As Damaging To Minorities (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Congress passed a historic ruling Wednesday, voting on a Senate-approved measure to pare down a massively prejudiced 100-to-1 sentencing disparity in ...

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Cocaine Sentencing Injustice Slightly Lessened

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law, Freebase, President Obama, Congress, Obama, Sentencing, War on Drugs, Coke, Injustice, Barack Obama, Drug, Crack, Sentence, Richard Pryor, Mandatory Minimum, Five Year, Prison, Chris Weigant, Disparity, Powder, Jail, Drug War, Dealer, Cocaine, Politics News

In true incrementalist fashion, Democrats have now made things slightly less unfair, but fell far short of actual fairness. It's as if, right after the Civil War, Congress announced that black people would now count as four-fifths of a person.

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Who's on Crack Now? Correcting the Record on "Crack Baby" Hysteria

Kathryn Schulz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Washington Post, Welfare, War on Drugs, 1980s, Crack Cocaine, The New York Times, Cocaine, Crack, Politics News

Failing to reckon with moments of mass wrongness ensures the media will continue to exploit incomplete information to sell stories that mine the ugliest stratum of the American psyche.

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Smoking Crack In Paris: EXCLUSIVE Unpublished Excerpt From Bill Clegg's 'Portrait Of An Addict As A Young Man'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paris, Crack, Drugs, Bill Clegg, Smoking Crack, Literary Agent, Books, Crack Addict, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, Crack Cocaine, Drug Addict, Memoir, Books News

Literary agent Bill Clegg's new memoir, "Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man," comes out today, June 7, and offers a fascinating look into the life o...

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AP Thinks Heroin's Got a Brand New Bag, Misses Story

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ap, Slate, Naloxone, Heroin, Media, Jack Shafer, Crack, Overdose, Media News

This kind of shallow reporting is why the media loses credibility -- a simple Google search or call to an academic expert on drugs or even a conversation with a long-time addict would reveal that $10 bags are not news.

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Crack Law: Not only Cruel and Racist, But Scientifically Wrong

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stupidity, Crime, African Americans, Sentencing, Drugs, Race, Justice, Crack, Healthy Living News

For years, those concerned with fairness in America have been distressed by the alarming racial disparities seen in the criminal justice system. Curr...

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Crack Candy Delivery In Brooklyn Riles Up Neighbors

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- Brooklyn residents are riled over a performance artist who's been delivering bags of fake crack. The Daily News reported that Nate Hill ma...

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