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“Time for an Awakening” for Sunday 1/28/2017 at 7:00 PM (EST) 6:00 PM (CST) guest was Activist, Internet Radio host of the program “War on the Horizon”, The Irritated Genie of Soufeese. Why has a great deal of our attempts to unify, or create unifying movements fail or stall? Is it all on us?, or is it other forces at work to insure the failure of our efforts? We talked about this and other topics with our guest.
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How Mass Incarceration Pushes Black Children Further Behind in School
Taryn Mitchell, center, plays jump rope with her daughter, Lamariae Williams, 10, right, and cousin Schelette Butler during their visit at the Folsom Women’s Facility in Folsom, California
In the summer of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the closing remarks at the March on Washington. More than 200,000 people gathered to cast a national spotlight on and mobilize resistance to Jim Crow, racist laws and policies that disenfranchised black Americans and mandated segregated housing, schools, and employment. Today, more than 50 years later, remnants of Jim Crow segregation persist in the form of mass incarceration—the imprisonment of millions of Americans, overwhelmingly and disproportionately black adults, in local, state, and federal prisons.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/01/how-mass-incarceration-pushes-black-children-further-behind-in-school/513161/
