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Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln, from Today's GOP

Three months after Barack Obama praised Abraham Lincoln in his victory night speech in Chicago, the first African-American President is celebrating the 200th birthday of the first Republican at several...

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Justice for children in Orange County, CA

You know how good it feels to see a flower fighting its way up through a sidewalk crack?  To see a littered, deserted lot turned into a thriving garden tended by the local community and providing fresh...

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OK Governor Says No Mercy Despite Pardon/ Parole 4 to 1 Vote for Reprieve

     Previously, we had the Pope, former FBI Director and Judge William Sessions, Desmond TuTu, Harry Belafonte, and President Jimmy Carter petition for mercy in the Troy Davis case. Unfortunately to...

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TDS / Colbert

Tonight's guests are Bryan Stevenson on The Daily Show and William Deresiewicz on The Colbert Report.Bryan Stevensonis the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a private,...

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Food for thought on criminal justice

“The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. . . . One in every three black male babies born in this century is expected to be incarcerated. . . . We’ve sent a quarter-million...

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... and secure the Blessings of Liberty...

words from the Preamble to the Constitution that established our national government.words that sadly do not seem applicable todayThe Preamble lists six purposes for the establishment of our system of...

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Kristof on A Shooter, His Victim and Race

in this New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof introduces his readers to Ian Manuel.On the surface, some might argue we should not care about Ian Manuel.  At the instigation of gang members and as...

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"I do what I do because I'm broken, too."

I read those words of Bryan Stevenson, from p. 289 of his magnificent book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, which has been the source of several of my recent posts here, and began to...

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So was an innocent teenager executed?

COLUMBIA, S.C. — More than 70 years after South Carolina sent a 14-year-old black boy to the electric chair in the killings of two white girls in a segregated mill town, a judge threw out the...

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Mount Rushmore, the KKK, and sanitized American history

Sculptures of (left to right) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. (Lakota Sioux name for the mountain: Six Grandfathers)"And...

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What the Voters of Michigan just told the Democratic Establishment: "'We Will...

Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:I’ll keep this short and to the point.  Here is what I said in a formal comment in the New York Times this morning about the upset victory of Bernie Sanders in last...

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The Rape of Justice: How Neoliberalism Destroys "Equal Justice Under Law"

  Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:IntroductionEvery unjust system, “Empires of Liberty” included, have their turning points, when their rigidities and systematic ideological cruelties become...

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A movement takes shape to memorialize lynching victims in the U.S.

In the wake of last year’s mass shooting of nine African Americans at South Carolina’s Emanuel A.M.E. Church, a renewed movement arose to remove the Confederate flag from government spaces and...

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Trump crowds evoke our ugly legacy of racial terrorism and lynching

Looking at large crowds of screaming Trump enthusiasts and reading their racially inflammatory  comments online evokes more and more disgust toward those who seek to downplay or shove aside the danger...

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Some Mid-Summer Thoughts About the Democratic Party or They Want $ & Our...

June 30, 2017Some Mid-Summer Thoughts About the Democratic Party orThey Want Our $ & Our Votes, Not Our Minds and Full Engagement…Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:Part One: I recently attended...

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Brief but Spectacular: Equal Justice Initiative

Bryan Stevenson — A stong voice that demands we wake up and pay attention to what is going on inside all of us.  He talks about the evolution of slavery- and the mistake we in the U.S. constantly make...

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A Hero of Mine Writes an Economic "Primer" for his Daughter: Yanis Varoufakis

Greetings Feminists:I just saw this note from Yanis Varoufakis in my Email this morning.  I have probably done more to promote this man's work, his writing and public involvement in creating a better...

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Beware the Apostles of Dystopia. They Come to Destroy Your Hope.

Beware the apostles of dystopia. They come to destroy your hope.  There are two sects. One preaches survival-of-the-fittest disdain for any social responsibility.  The other preaches defeatism and...

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Eric Garner also could not breathe. Michael Brown can't either, anymore. Nor...

In 1979, when I was 20, volunteering at the Grace Hill Settlement House in St. Louis, in my first week in St. Louis, I saw the Mets play the Cardinals at Busch Stadium (I saw Lou Brock’s last at bat as...

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It wasn't a "Lost Cause." The Statues Mean Something Down South, Because THE...

We don’t like to think about it.  In fact, we DON’T think about it.  We know all the history, because we make it our business to know the history. What we don’t think about, any more than a frog thinks...

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Thermal Thursday: Progressive Christianity and Equal Justice: With Jon...

Welcome to Street Prophets Coffee Hour! Thermal for the warmth of a good cup of coffee or your preferred beverage, as well as the warmth of a more progressive religion and community.Please follow...

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