The Oakland City Council passed the Equity Permit Program; an initiative designed to offer reparations to those affected by the Drug War.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions taps a criminal justice hard-liner as his lieutenant, signaling an end to reforms.
Plus, University of Texas-San Antonio offering academic course on Beyoncé's "Lemonade" and Trayvon Martin's parents will release new memoir about their son's death in Jan. 2017.
A short film narrated by Jay Z calls the war on drugs a failure. It's time to rethink drug policies.
It came as no surprise to some African-Americans this week when news broke that a former aide to President Richard M. Nixon developed anti-drug policies that targeted Black people.
The so-called “War On Drugs” has largely been seen by critics as a draconian tactic that has impacted communities of color negatively and unfairly over the years. In a new article from Harper’s magazine a 1994 interview with President Richard Nixon advisor John D. Ehrlichman, in which he stated the policy was aimed to disrupt Black […]
New drug reforms are slated to be presented to the United Nations in April.
When we were growing up in Hollis, Queens in the '70s, there was not a single person who wasn't affected by the drug epidemic that began to ravage our community.
A week after the White House announced the president would commute sentences for dozens of non-violent drug offenders this summer, Barack Obama made good on the…
In a visit where he is expected to push for criminal-justice reform, President Barack Obama will become the first sitting president to visit a federal…
An $18 million plan unveiled this week will allow thousands of New Yorkers accused of low-level and non-violent offenses to skip bail in replacement for…
Following his plan to rectify the “war on drugs” that jailed thousands and destroyed communities, President Obama is expected to commute the sentences of dozens…
