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Month: August 2016

Race, Mass Incarceration, and Bill Clinton’s Policies

August 13, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

Did Bill Clinton’s policies cause the mass incarceration of Black people? Since I’ve done a lot of analysis of incarceration trends in the 1990s, I thought I’d bring some facts into this discussion. Short version: The steep increase in the mass incarceration of Black people happened before Bill Clinton took

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Vision for Black Lives

August 5, 2016 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

EDITED June 2020 to update links in the M4BL web site. Under the name  Movement for Black Lives , a coalition of contemporary Black Power organizations (including  Madison’s Freedom, Inc.) have worked for a year to develop a comprehensive vision and agenda for social change. This is an exciting moment

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