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Copaganda
How pop culture helped turn police officers into rock stars — and Black folks into criminals.
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system actors
Resistance Is Futile
In ways large and small, defendants who try to assert their voice in the criminal legal system see their agency denied — including, sometimes, by their own lawyers.
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An American Invention
In the struggle to end mass incarceration, one must understand how the criminalization of violence is largely a modern creation.
Reflections
A Disruptive Innovation
Dismantling the machine that is mass incarceration requires all of us to think outside the box.
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Fear of the Black Child
American society and its criminal legal system simply won’t let Black kids be kids