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“Fruitvale Station:” Check your stereotypes at the ticket counter

July 30, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Crime/Violence, Guns, Literature/Arts/Film, Police, Public safety Leave a comment

The Jan. 1, 2009 headlines said: “22-year-old, unarmed black man fatally shot by BART police.” For too many Americans, it was just another example

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The gap between what’s legal and what’s just

July 17, 2013 Arthur Lieber Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Courts, Crime/Violence, Ethics, Guns, Human Rights, Media, Police, Poverty, Violence Leave a comment

St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan recently wrote a piece about how a cross engraved on the pitcher’s mound at Busch Stadium “gave him

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Zimmerman not-guilty verdict: Commentary by political cartoonists

July 15, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Cities, Civil Rights, Courts, Crime/Violence, Guns, Media, Police, Public safety Leave a comment

When a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin, sending justice back to the drawing board, that’s exactly where political

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Frank Wills [Watergate,1972 ] vs. George Zimmerman [Florida, 2012]

June 5, 2012 Arthur Lieber Campaigns, Civil Rights, Crime/Violence, History, Police, Politics, Violence, Voting/Elections One comment

June 17 will mark the 39th anniversary of the infamous Watergate break-in by robbers and schemers sympathetic to President Richard Nixon. A security guard

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