Social Justice Archive
Richmond, VA. —The Virginia State Conference of the NAACP filed a brief on Monday, June 27, 2016 in the Virginia Supreme Court in support of Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s executive order restoring voting rights to more than 200,000 Virginians with previous …
The new world order is really taking shape. Not only are humans being more conditioned to become robots, we are being slowly conned out of our own rights and liberties. Everything we do and have belongs to the state, providing authorities …
In January, California State Senator Carol Liu (D-La Cañada Flintridge) introduced a bill that aims to protect the right of California’s homeless to “rest” in public spaces. Senate Bill 876 would de-criminalize homelessness by ultimately limiting local sanitation and law …
Those of us who have been around for a few decades can remember when having this day to reflect on the transformative life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. appeared to be another dream just beyond our grasp. But …
By the Rev. Rubén Austria The video of a school resource officer violently slamming an African-American teenage girl to the floor and then dragging her across the classroom when she refused to get out of her seat spread across social …
(a continuation of Empathy, Inclusion, and Moral Dialog or What Gets in the Way of Negotiating Social Justice? )A person values some states of affairs over others and acts accordingly.A person will not choose less behavior potential over more.A person …
By Judge Steven Teske Juvenile Justice Information Exchange This hostility is not just measured by the number of arrests, but who we are arresting. When I visit cities around the country to deliver assistance, their data is similar to …
Socrates Stop. Now we must tell what there is in this that is faulty and lacks art, must we not?Phaedrus Yes.Socrates It is clear to everyone that we are in accord about some matters of this kind and at variance …
The correctional field is a multi billion dollar-a-year business in the United States alone, employing thousands of administrative and technical employees, not to mention the countless probation officer jobs and other support staff. While most of us will never see …
The Black Lives Matter Campaign has been in the media now for some time, and it’s surprising to see how polarizing this movement has been. Just the other day a news host asked why it wasn’t classified as a hate …
