Sad, Sad Story

February 22, 2009

Monday, November 19, 2007

November 19, 2007

Study Naming Detroit Most Dangerous City Criticized for “an irresponsible misuse” of Crime Data, from the Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/NEWS05/711190333/1001

African American Juveniles 10 Times More Likely than White Children to be Given Life Without Parole , from the Seattle Times, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004022385_juveniles19.html?syndication=rss

Republican Party of Florida Kicks Off First Black Republican Conference, from PR Newswire, http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/11-16-2007/0004707558&EDATE=

Sony Pictures to Release This Christmas on November 21–Story of Middle-Class Black Family, http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thischristmas/

Websites of the Day:

Republic Party of Florida, http://www.rpof.org/


U.S. Sentencing Commission May Reduce Sentences for Crack Offenses

November 13, 2007

Nearly 86 percent of inmates who would be affected by the change are black.  Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/12/AR2007111201745.html