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Sessions Stands for Outmoded, Unjust Law-and-Order Policies
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COMMENTARY Sessions Stands for Outmoded, Unjust Law-and-Order Policies
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ttorney General Jeff Sessions gets it wrong. On core issue after core issue -- civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights, police reform and particularly mass incarceration -- he is a destructive force. The United States locks up more people per capita than any country in the world. China, run by a brutal Communist Party that is paranoid about dissent and upheaval, doesn’t put people behind bars at the rate we do.
disproportionate part of those locked up. The institutionalized racial bias of our criminal injustice system is notorious and indisputable. Black fathers warn their sons about driving while black. Blacks are more likely to be stopped, more likely to be searched if stopped, more likely to be detained if searched, more likely to be charged if detained and more likely to be imprisoned if charged. Black men are imprisoned at six times the rate of white men.
In the last years of the Obama administration, a bipartisan consensus formed about the need to reduce unnecessary imprisonment. Republicans signed on because it could save money. Democrats liked it because it offered hope that fewer lives would be destroyed for making a mistake. Sessions, upon becoming attorney general, turned his back on this movement, instructing U.S. prosecutors to charge the most serious provable offenses. He has boosted private prisons, reinstated the federal asset forfeiture program and moved to lengthen drug sentences. Most recently, he instructed prosecutors to enforce U.S. laws making marijuana illegal, even in states that have legalized it such as Colorado and California. So much for Trump’s campaign pledge that he is a “states’ rights” supporter.
The result is shameful. In 2014, the Bureau of Justice Statistics showed that black men have a staggering one in three chance of going to prison in their lifetimes. Having a record makes getting a decent job more difficult. Serving time makes that even worse. Many states still disenfranchise those convicted of a felony even after they have served their time. Michelle Alexander has termed this a new Jim Crow, yet another way to keep down the black vote. Finding alternatives to incarceration, particularly for nonviolent crimes, should not be a partisan issue. And in Illinois, to some extent, it isn’t. Once elected, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner pledged to reduce the number incarcerated in the state by one-fourth by 2025. Recent reports suggest it is down by about 9 percent this year.
While Republicans protest that mass incarceration isn’t about race, you know it is certainly about race. People of color -- African-Americans particularly -- are a
This isn’t due to any one reform. Prosecutors and judges are asked to use common sense in deciding whether to seek prison sentences. In Chicago, widespread use of
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resident Donald Trump’s sunrise tweet casting aspersions on the domestic surveillance program his own intelligence officials have called essential set off a thunderclap of concern in Washington -- and underscored the pitfalls of the President’s morning television tweet-alongs. Phones at the White House began ringing almost immediately after Trump wrote at 7:33 a.m. ET that the FISA program up for reauthorization in the House on Thursday may have been used to “badly surveil” his campaign.
The court enables the offender and a victim to determine what an appropriate remedy would be -- from community service to repayment of costs, resulting in both more social peace and fewer people in prison. And on fulfilling the agreement, the offender’s record is erased -- a big plus for his or her future. Reducing excessive incarceration is necessary but not sufficient. Those released from prison or avoiding prison need job training, jobs and affordable transportation. Some need drug rehab and psychological assistance. They need hope and a hand up, not simply a get out of prison card. The parallel is what happened with welfare. The repeal of welfare and its implementation in various states reduced the welfare rolls. However, it didn’t reduce poverty or the vulnerability of the impoverished mothers who were pushed off the rolls. They need job training, jobs, affordable transportation, child care, health care and more. And that hasn’t been forthcoming.
Young people make mistakes. They get in the wrong crowd; they grow desperate or cynical. Too many fall for drugs and gangs. We need a process that insures a mistake does not condemn them to a life of crime. An offender may be released from jail, but if his or her record keeps him or her from getting hired, the chances of returning to jail are high. Nearly 50 percent of ex-offenders in Illinois are back in prison within three years. Reducing the number of people in jail would save a lot of money. Those savings could help defray the cost of education, training and transportation subsidy for those who are released. We need to invest more in these things as a society -- for those coming out of high school as well as those coming out of prison. Instead of locking people up, we could decide to help them up. Surely that would make America better. In the 1960s George Wallace vowed to stand in the schoolhouse door to keep African American children from getting in. Now Jeff Sessions is standing in the prison door to keep young people of color from getting out. Surely we can do better than that. You can write to the Rev. Jesse Jackson in care of this newspaper or by email at jjackson@rainbowpush.org. Follow him on Twitter @RevJJackson. Share this story online at stylemagazine. com.
Real Political Change Starts Locally: Meet Brennen Dunn By Demez White, Style Feature Writer of their conference. “(Chief of staff John) Kelly’s phone was ringing off the hook,” said one senior Republican official close to intelligence matters on Capitol Hill. “No one could believe it,” another Republican supportive of the FISA reauthorization said.
Debate over domestic surveillance
On the blinking lines: Republican lawmakers and top intelligence officials perplexed that Trump had appeared to contradict more than a week of public statements from the administration in support of the reauthorization, which allows the government to conduct warrantless spying on US soil.
Five-and-a-half years after Edward Snowden leaked details of the government’s secret spying programs, the dustup over Trump’s tweet underscored the still-roiling debate over domestic surveillance, technology and Americans’ views of their own privacy. But it also spoke to a more recent phenomenon: Trump’s habit of tweeting whatever seems to come across his flat-screen televisions, no matter the advice of his aides nor the position of his administration.
Ultimately, the measure passed handily. But not until after a 101-minute long scramble to clean up the President’s position ahead of the midday vote, which Republican leaders had been eying with optimism after spending weeks rounding up votes and batting down demands from the conservative and libertarian elements
When he sent his early morning message on Thursday, he quoted directly a banner graphic that had appeared on Fox News minutes earlier: “House votes on controversial FISA ACT today.” The headline was punctuated by a direct-to-camera appeal by the conservative judge Andrew Napolitano against re-upping the surveil-
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“ankle bracelets” allows police to keep track of offenders without locking them up. Reducing waiting times for trial helps. In Chicago, a staggering nine of 10 people in jail are waiting for trial, not serving a sentence. Seven of 10 are charged with nonviolent crimes. The West Side Chicago neighborhood North Lawndale will host the first “restorative justice community court.”
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Donald Trump lance program. “Mr. President, this is not the way to go,” he said at 6:47 a.m. ET. “Spying is valid to find the foreign agents among us. But it’s got to be based on suspicion, and not an area code.” Trump, who continues to brood over special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible ties between Russia and his associates, took less than an hour to link the FISA issue to his own disputes with US law enforcement agencies. “This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?” he wrote.
Drafting a follow-up
As the tweet buzzed in notifications from Capitol Hill to the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Trump’s advisers hurried to draft a follow-up that might help preserve the administration’s position in support of the act’s reauthorization. CIA Director Mike Pompeo -- one of Trump’s most trusted advisers who regularly administers the presidential daily briefing -- was in touch with the White House to discuss the tweet, people familiar with the situation said. A former Republican lawmaker who once declared that Trump’s tweets “help” his agency, Pompeo had made a forceful case for reauthorizing the FISA program during a television interview five days ago. A CIA spokesman declined to comment.
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Do you know an Unsung Hero? Who are the Unsung in the Greater Houston Area? In honor of the outstanding achievements of Unsung Heroes in the African American community, Ford Motor Company is launching a search for Unsung Heroes in the Greater Houston Area.
Honoring Unsung Heroes in the African American community In every community there are people who go above and beyond to positively impact countless lives. Their stories deserve recognition. Ford Freedom Unsung celebrates these extraordinary individuals and organizations within communities across the country whose achievements may otherwise go unacknowledged. Made possible by a grant from Ford Motor Company Fund, Ford Freedom Unsung salutes and honors those who have positively impacted communities and whose achievements serve to enlighten and inspire others. This special Hurricane Harvey Edition will celebrate individuals who went above and beyond to support the Houston region during this difficult time. Honorees are selected based on outstanding accomplishments including unique and valiant acts that positively impact lives in their immediate or widespread community. Their actions affect many and impart triumphant outcomes.
In recognition of the many heroic and selfless acts taken during Hurricane Harvey, this special edition of Ford Freedom Unsung will honor and celebrate local individuals who went above and beyond to support the community during this difficult time. To be considered for an award, nominees should be people whose actions in response to Hurricane Harvey uplifted the Greater Houston region and moved the community forward. Honorees will be recognized at a special Black History month event and program on Monday, February 12, 2018 at the Bell Tower on 34th, 901 W 34th Street, Houston, TX 77018. All nominations must be completed and postmarked or received by email no later than January 22, 2018 in order to be considered by the Board of Judges. Recipients will be notified in early February 2018. To enter: • Submit the name, address, and telephone number of both your nominee and yourself as the nominator. • Write a brief (500 words or less) compelling summary describing what distinguishes your nominee as an individual, including information that highlights how the nominee’s actions benefitted the lives of others during the Harvey crisis. • Recipients must be present at the program in February 2018.
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n the early morning hours of December 31, 2008, in a quiet Houston, TX suburb, Robbie Tolan’s life was changed forever. Mistakenly accused of stealing his own car, while it was parked in his own driveway, Tolan, a young black man, was shot in the chest by a white police officer…the bullet ripping through one of his lungs before lodging in his liver. The entire incident unfolding right in front of Tolan’s horrified parents. NO JUSTICE: One White Police Officer, One Black Family, and How One Bullet Ripped Us Apart is the story about what happened after the cameras and social media protests went away. Tolan was left to face unimaginable physical and mental devastation and was forced to confront the sometimes-ugly truth about the dangers young black men face across the U.S.
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ormer Houston Community College board member Chris Oliver will serve 70 months in federal prison, U.S. District Judge Vanessa D. Gilmore decided. Contractors allegedly paid Oliver a total of more than $250,000 influence contract awards between 2009 and 2016. Oliver plead guilty to accepting a $12,000 bribe from an HCC contractor, a bribe for which the Federal Bureau of Investigation provided funding. Oliver will have to return that $12,000 to the FBI. During the sentencing, Gilmore asked if accepting bribes was “standard” at HCC, saying the college appeared to be a “cesspool.” When asked if Oliver’s actions were the only corruption that has gone on at the college, HCC trustee Dave Wilson responded, “Hell no.
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hat was billed as a region-wide celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has drawn fire from local civil rights groups and community activists. They’re angry over the inclusion of Gov. Greg Abbott as an honorary grand marshal of the Toyota North Texas Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade & Celebration, which is scheduled for next Monday in Arlington. The Arlington chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said Abbott’s inclusion, “stings with hypocrisy.” In a statement, the group said Abbott has “done more to damage and undermine African-American and Latino civil and voter rights, educational opportunities and economic empowerment than any other modern-day Texas governor.”
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ulti-national clothing retail company, H&M, has received sharp criticism from the public following a “racist” photo of a young black boy wearing a “coolest monkey in the jungle” hoodie featured on their website. The hoodie, listed as printed hooded top on the store’s UK website, gained negative feedback after social media users noticed it. H&M, a Swedish company, apologized for what many have said is an insensitive correlation between the young black model and a typical hateful insult against Black people. “This image has now been removed from all H&M channels and we apologize to anyone this may have offended,” the company said in a brief statement from its Stockholm headquarters.
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exas leaders are taking the first steps to make long-awaited fixes to state hospitals built in the 19th and 20th centuries that serve Texans who need mental health services. Texas Health and Human Services Commission officials said they are receiving $47.7 million to begin needed construction for existing state hospitals. The funding is part of the $300 million authorized by the Legislature during the 2017 session. The first phase of improvements includes remodeling projects to expand capacity at the Kerrville and San Antonio state hospitals, adding beds to the Rusk State Hospital and planning for a new hospital in Houston. It also includes developing plans for reimagining the Austin State Hospital and San Antonio State Hospital.
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Wells Fargo Invests $6.6 Million in H&M Apologizes For “Coolest Judge Rules in Favor of Obama Rule To Capital and Grants for Black Businesses Monkey in the Jungle” Hoodie Promo Help Low Income Families in 2018 [Good Black News] [BlackNews.com] [Low Income Housing Authority]
ells Fargo is awarding $6.6 million in lending capital and grants to 12 Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) nationally that black-owned small businesses and others can use to flourish and create jobs. The funding comes from the Wells Fargo Works for Small Business: Diverse Community Capital (DCC) program. The program includes targeting businesses owned by blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans. That support can include providing technical assistance, marketing, and other help such as coaching and education that the businesses perhaps need to grow. The CDFIs are private, nonprofit financial institutions focused on providing responsible and affordable lending to underserved populations and communities.
Texas Takes Early Steps to Repair Or Replace Its Aged Mental Hospitals [Texas Tribune]
federal judge has ruled in favor of the Obama rule to be executed starting this January. This is great news to low-income families because they will have more chances for better housing in a more affluent neighborhood. The rule was intended to separate regions of concentrated poverty in two dozen metro regions. Through that, it is much easier for low-income families to afford better apartments in a well-to-do neighborhood with good schools, higher-paying jobs, and lower crime rate. Previously, public rental assistance for low-income families usually allowed them to reside only in segregated communities with high-poverty rates. Then-HUD Secretary Julian Castro changed the rule making way for a redistribution of voucher value.
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Kamala Harris, Cory Booker Appointed to Senate Judiciary Committee [TheRoot.com]
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ens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) were appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee. This is only the second time in the 201-year history of the committee that anyone black has served on it, and the first time there have been two black people on the committee at once. Mark this down on your calendars. According to the Washington Post, Harris—who is a former attorney general for the state of California—was already seen as a likely candidate to replace Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on the committee after his resignation late last year. Booker’s appointment comes just one year after he testified against the appointment of then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who was awaiting confirmation for the position of U.S. attorney general.
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Quality Over Quantity: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Lasting Legacy
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r. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important. “ The quality and legacy one’s leaves on Earth is something that has been at the forefront of my mind since 2018 began. We are only 11 days in 2018 and I have been to three funerals with one pending. During their celebration of life affairs, many spoke of the goodness of the decease’s life and the people he/she touched. They spoke of their accomplishments and the people left to cherish their memory. People didn’t relish over the degrees they had, the vehicles they drove or the labels they wore. It was just about how they made people feel and the impression they
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left. Dr. King has been dead for 49 years yet the legacy of his life is still reverberating in the souls of many today. His words still ring true. His works still hold meaning. His character is still being emulated by others. His legacy still lingers on. Every year we pause to remember and honor his life as we continue to strive to live in that world he so eloquently spoke of where people are not “judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” And we still couldn’t be further from it. Our nation is more divided than ever before. Not only are black people in danger but all people. Black men and women are still being judged first, punished second, and killed last by the hands of some police officers. This is making the list that has
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the names of Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Philander Castile, Alton Sterling, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and Michael Brown grow longer each day. Hispanics are being threatened with deportation after living here all their lives and following the rules to become American citizens. While there are still hundreds upon hundreds that sit in jails with their life rotting away for a crime they did not commit. Beyond the color lines are the gender equality issues with women not just receiving lower wages for the same work as men but being sexually harassed in order to work. As a result, many have spent years in silence taking the abuse, until some found their voice with the #MeToo movement. Other Americans are
being judged simply for who they love and denied certain rights that should be privy to all Americans. This is a mere drop in the bucket of the unjust, unfair practices that plague our nation. I don’t have the answer to how we can become a more peaceful, perfect nation. However, I do know that it is going to take more than just one person if we are to ever live in a world of which King dreamed. It will take more than just one voice. It will take more than just one foot soldier. The quality of one’s life is based on the impact that one can make today and every day that they have breath in their body. Who will use the years that they have to make an impact to last decades as King once did?
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HEALTH This One Change to Your Workout Can Help You See Better Results
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t is widely known that a great exercise regimen should include strength training. And the benefits of regular strength training are plenty: keeps bones strong, speeds up metabolism, and keeps the inches off for the long run. But what you may not know is that how quickly you move through your strength workout can make a huge difference in how quickly you can see the effects of your hard work. When it comes to strength training, slower is better. If you rush through your strength workout, you might not be getting the most out of your time at the gym. But by slowing down, your muscles get to work overtime, meaning you’ll see and feel changes in your body in less time. As a general rule, when you’re lifting weights, slowly count “1,2,3” as you lift, and then again as you lower the weight to your starting position.
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Once you slow down your strength training routine, you can build higher levels of strength than you would otherwise. The slower you move to lift a weight, like in a bicep curl for instance, you force your muscles to stay activated longer. Instead of needing to engage your muscles only for a second or two as you lift the weight, you’ll notice that your muscle is also working as you slowly lower the weight. This means you’re doing twice as much work and getting twice the strength gains from the same move.
Stay Injury Free Starting a strength training regimen is always risky, simply because you are challenging your body in a brand new way. As with any new movement, it’s best to take your time to avoid hurting yourself (or others around you). Even if you’re a seasoned pro
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when it comes to lifting weights, there’s still a risk to hurt yourself if you move too quickly when moving with a heavy weight. For this reason, taking your routine slow will help to protect you from injury, since your body can better brace itself to lift those weights. You’ll also be able to better notice any weaknesses in your muscles more easily than if you rush through your workout. This can keep you from pulling or straining your muscles.
Perfect Your Form Form is key to get the most out of any exercise. This is true whether you’re running, swimming, or lifting. Good form can help you be more efficient in your movement, and make sure that you’re actually using the right muscle groups and not overworking the wrong parts of your body. When it comes to lifting weights, bad form can be a waste your time, and n got time to waste! By taking your strength workout slower, you can make sure that your form is next
to perfect, so that you activate the right muscles for each move, and start to see real gains in your body. Just be sure to talk to a trainer to check your form if you think your moves aren’t working, then remember not to rush through so your work really pays off.
Get Noticeable Changes In Your Body Whether you’re aiming to bulk up, or build lean muscle, slowing down your strength workouts can be the best change to see real changes in your body. First, keep in mind that women are not naturally built to bulk up like men because women don’t have the testosterone to grow huge muscles. So to the ladies who lift heavy, you can still get stronger without worrying about looking like the Hulk. So the next time you pick up a weight, remember, to take it slow (cue John Legend vocals)!
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The Living Room Session with Author Crystal Hadnott Photography by Vicky Pink nown in many arenas, Crystal Hadnott is probably best recognized for her passion for running that evolve to her love of health. Now in a her debut book, The Finish Line was Just the Start: A Marathon Runner’s Memoir of Relentlessness, Resilience & Renewal, she chronicles her life as a marathon runner in full transparency of how she got there, what she encountered along the way and who she became in the process. She recently hosted “The Living Room Session with Author Crystal Hadnott,” a reading and discussion of the book in an intimate session that also allowed attendees to pre-order a signed copy of the memoir. Some in attendance were Julie Griffith, Shawntell McWilliams, Terry Thomas, Lynn Kelly, Misha Nicohi, Sh’Nay Ballard, Mimi Irvin, Bridgett Joe, and Eliza Boquin.
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hat if your entire future was mapped out for you?All you’d have to do is show up, keep your nose clean and your mouth shut. But what if you couldn’t?
What if the color of your skin had some bearing on it, and your outrage and need for understanding made you speak up? As in the new novel, “Dear Martin” by Nic Stone, WWMLKD? It was supposed to have been a nice thing. When Justyce McAllister saw his ex-girlfriend, Melo, next to her car, drunk and half-dressed, he knew there was no way she could drive herself home and he wasn’t about to leave her in that neighborhood. She hollered when he took her keys. She smacked him as he poured her into the passenger’s seat, which was nothing compared to what happened when the cops stopped and cuffed him, thinking that he was hurting Mel, whose skin was more light than Black. He’d never forget the feel of those cuffs,
“Dear Martin: A Novel” by Nic Stone By Terri Schlichenmeyer, Book Reviewer
which led him to a search for understanding through the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Justyce felt that if he could live like Martin, he might be able to tolerate things like being guilty until proven innocent because of his race.
white girl? And this: Martin chose to be nonviolent, but what about everybody else? What can you say about a book that surprises, gives you goosebumps, makes you happy, and then makes you sad?
He might also be able to withstand guys like Jared, who was in Justyce’s debate If it’s “Dear Martin,” you say, “Yes, class. From his head to his toes, Jared was please.” racist, hiding behind fake equality in his Through an observant narrator and the pathetic arguments and complaints about spot-on voice of a teenage boy, author reverse discrimination. Nic Stone takes national news and genCouldn’t everybody see through people tly twists it into a believable tale that’s like that? No, Manny couldn’t. Manny was smooth and somewhat unruffled until – Justyce’s best friend but he was Jared’s bam! – Stone drops a gigantic stone into friend, too, which was something Justyce the story. couldn’t understand. If you haven’t fallen for her perfectHe didn’t get why Manny agreed with ly-created characters by that point, she’ll Jared’s comments or why he hung out with have your compete attention there. Jared’s crowd. Manny was Black. He had a cousin who was gang-banging but he What happens next, and next after that, stayed friends with a fool. is unexpected – don’t even try to guess – and it’ll have you turning pages. No matter. Justyce had his own issues and he wondered what Martin would do. Indeed, you’ll absolutely need to know Surely, Dr. King wouldn’t stay quiet about how this tale ends and how a man who’s racial profiling. Would Martin fall for a been dead nearly five decades impacted it.
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