The New Jim Crow

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  Episode 1 Segment 1: The New Jim Crow

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  Clint Smith visits a prison to examine the relationship between race, prison terms and the fact that the United States has the largest prison population in the world

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  On the Red Couch with ASPIREist host Clint Smith

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  We sat on the red couch with Clint Smith from the tv show ASPIREist to talk in depth about his story "The New Jim Crow.” You can read more about this story in the Episode 1 Flipboard Magazine: http://flip.it/_RmBy

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  Sign the Petition

  change.org - Zavé Martohardjono

  Right now, we have an opportunity to fix one of the biggest moral crises of our time. 1 out of every 100 Americans is behind bars. The U.S. spends $80 …

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  The Case for Considering Reparations

  The Atlantic - By Ta-Nehisi Coates

  A country that could actively contemplate atoning for plunder would be a very different nation than one we live in now. Kevin Drum offers an interesting, and familiar, rebuttal to the reparations argument: Drum believes that I was “reticent” about reparations because I did not talk about “concrete …

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  The Shared Interests of White Supremacy

  The Atlantic - By Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Black poverty is fundamentally distinct from white poverty—and so cannot be addressed without grappling with racism. There have been a number of useful entries in the weeks since Senator Bernie Sanders declared himself against reparations. Perhaps the most clarifying comes from Cedric Johnson in a …

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