Prison Industrial Complex

The United States prison system has become a part of life for many people of color, considering that the nation has just five percent of the world’s population but over 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Selma Director Ava DuVernay examines the prison-industrial complex in her Netflix documentary, The 13th, which takes a serious look […]

Remember that time Creflo Dollar convinced everyone in his church that he needed 65 million dollars for a private jet? Jasmine Sanders provides us with 10 less frivolous things he could’ve done with $65 Million that would’ve helped the black community. Click on the audio player to hear them all on The D.L. Hughley Show.  Sign Up […]

A new report from MetricMaps details a shocking statistic — in 16 states in the nation, there are more people locked up in correctional facilities than those…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentences of nearly two dozen drug convicts, including eight serving life in prison, in an act the White House said continues Obama’s push to make the justice system fairer by reducing harsh sentences that were handed down under outdated guidelines. The effort could lead […]

The case of Joan (pronounced “Jo-Anne”) Little helped bring awareness to sexual buse of women in prison. On this day in 1975, Ms. Little became the first woman acquitted of murder using a self-defense plea after she killed an abusive white prison guard. Little was born in 1953 in Washington, N.C, a small coastal town. […]

Call it the stadium that got its name by way of the new Jim Crow. Scores of football players, many of them black, will be making money for Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., by catching passes, making tackles, and scrambling into the end zone. And from the looks of things, those FAU Owls […]