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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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“Stand your ground” is really “Kill at will”

April 13, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Crime/Violence, States, Violence 3 comments

Gun lobbyists and their minions in state legislatures want us to believe that making it legal for  people to shoot others because  they feel

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Gabrielle Giffords, Trayvon Martin: Why aren’t we talking about the guns?

April 12, 2012 Arthur Lieber Congress, Crime/Violence, Obama, Violence 4 comments

What does it take in America when there is a senseless gun shooting for the country to say enough is enough about firearms? In

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