by Wendell Griffen | Oct 6, 2022 | Opinion
The much boasted American “rule of law” is a sham. Notice how legislators across the nation, including Arkansas, rushed to pass laws to disenfranchise or undermine voting by Black people after Donald Trump was defeated in 2020. In Arkansas, white Republican...
by Wendell Griffen | Oct 5, 2022 | Opinion
The Supreme Court of the United States issued its ruling in the case of Moore v. Dempsey in 1923. By a 6–2 margin, the Court said that the trials of six of the Elaine 12 – Frank Moore, Frank and Ed Hicks, Joe Knox, Paul Hall and Ed Coleman – were dominated by mobs....
by Starlette Thomas | Sep 26, 2022 | Opinion
“No one is above the law.” For the first time in America’s history, former president Donald Trump is putting those words to the test. Last month, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said it, but he may have to prove it. No longer an assumption, an understanding that...
by Starlette Thomas | Aug 24, 2022 | Christian Nationalism, News
Are we in a new civil rights movement? Sam Heath, manager of the Evangelical Network, posed this question to historian and author Jemar Tisby during a recent webinar. Hosted by Equal Justice USA, “a national organization that works to transform the justice system by...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jun 6, 2022 | News
There were 5,500,600 adults in the U.S. correctional system at the end of 2020, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report published in late March 2022. This is the lowest level since 1996, when 5,531,200 adults were in the system, and it continues more than a...
