...in the Sean Bell case (Bell, who was unaramed, was killed and two of his also unarmed friends wounded after 50 shots were fired by officers in Jamaica, Queens.) And the acquittal was on all charges. Disturbing, to put it mildly....as ogged points out (I...
civil rights
Reading part of an econ dissertation linked by Yglesias, I'm reminded Carl Schurz's famous description of Reconstruction. In her project, University of Michigan graduate student Melinda Miller examines the post-civil.
Writing about the "is sexual orientation genetic or is it a choice?" pointless dichotomy, M. Leblanc makes a point that isn't made often enough:Arguing that things are out of someone's.
Following up on the fine post of his colleague, Bob Herbert tees off (implicitly) on David Brooks's attempts to whitewash Reagan's awful record on civil rights and use of rhetorical code to appeal to the white supremacists whose votes were crucial to the post-CRA partisan...
Matt says he's reading this book defending Eisenhower's record on race. I haven't read it, so maybe it makes the case. But I would be skeptical on several fronts that.