The issue of prison gerrymandering has existed since the census was first taken, but became more noticeable in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the explosion in prison populations.
Peniel Joseph’s history of the three Reconstructions.
Despite the raised awareness around the issue of reparations, the political will to enact a federal plan is currently lacking.
Why on earth are people's lives being valued differently depending on the country they live in?
Regardless of whether economic conditions are good or bad, Black jobseekers are less likely to find work.
Inequality, poverty and discrimination lie behind explosion of rural anger against rich Lima
Despite important strides that the United States has made toward racial equality in the 60 years since the March on Washington, we have yet to address the persistent poverty and unemployment that turned Martin Luther King’s dream “into a nightmare.”
As the economy opened up to women a half century ago, one in three working women was an office employee. As the clerical workforce grew by leaps and bounds, so did a sense of injustice among the women, leading to the founding of the 9 to 5 Movement.
Hammouri had been held in Israeli administrative detention based on ‘secret evidence’ without charges since March.
For many low-income and minority Americans, automobiles have been turbo-boosted engines of inequality, immobilizing their owners with debt, increasing their exposure to hostile law enforcement, and in general accelerating the forces that drive apart haves and have-nots.
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