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All posts tagged "racial and ethnic bias"
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2.9KGuest Opinion EssayRestorative Justice Is Used to Legitimize Oppressive Systems
The practices and approaches the Western world today refers to as “restorative justice” have roots in indigenous, including indigenous African, peacemaking and...
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2.8KFrom the BureausNYPD Disproportionately Restrains Students Of Color During School Crises, New York City Agency Data Shows
Over 1,500 students were restrained by school safety agents of the NYPD from the first quarter of 2019 through the first quarter...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayTime to Invest In Our Communities, Proven Solutions to Gun Violence
Three months ago, the entire nation was rocked by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. In the weeks since his...
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4.3KNewsChild Protective Services Target Minority, Poor Women, Report Says
In 2018, Elizabeth Brico left her Florida home for three days following a fight with her mother-in-law. After her mother-in-law called Florida’s...
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1.7KGuest Opinion EssaySystem Change Means More Than Defunding Police
Calls for racial justice have reached a critical level in the U.S. and the world. This moment, which to many people seemed...
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1.0KFrom the BureausNYPD Reforms That Ban Chokeholds, Hiding Badge IDs Pass City Council, Go to Mayor
After weeks of emotionally charged youth-led protests calling for sweeping reforms to root racism out of the criminal justice system in the...
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2.5KNewsBasketball Program in NY Goes Full-court Press on STEM
The well-meaning cannot parachute into a minority and marginalized community with a remedy for a systemic problem and expect to be easily...
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssayBoost Education for Youth in Solitary With More Books, Workbooks, Graphic Novels, Audiobooks
Advocates often urge the dismantling of the school-to-prison pipeline. But for many of our youth, prisons are already their schools. In 1954,...
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayFrom Trauma to Trust: New Approaches to Police Accountability
A Newark, N.J., police officer talks about the hostility she experiences from local residents. She is pained that the community won’t look...
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5.5KGuest Opinion EssayDear Restorative Justice: Our Student Isn’t Responding
What do you do when someone is obdurate and has no interest in taking responsibility or admitting any guilt at all?
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3.1KNewsTrump Policies Hurting Young People of Color, Immigrants Most, Report Says
America’s justice system is reverting to 1960s-style “law-and-order” policies that are exacting a heavy toll on communities of color, especially young people,...
