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August 17, 2010
This week on The Confab: Reducing the gap in drug sentencing. Why films about black women are made by men. The 45th anniversary of the Watts riot. Join The Root's managing editor, Joel Dreyfuss, as he talks with editors Cord Jefferson, Nsenga Burton and guests.
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by Les Payne onAugust 10, 2010
But black crack cocaine sellers and dealers will still be punished more harshly than whites trafficking in powder cocaine.
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July 28, 2010
The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which will at last narrow the divide between prison sentences for crack and powder cocaine busts, is on its way to President Obama’s desk today.
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by Knolly Moses onMay 24, 2010
After months of stalling, the government's effort to arrest an alleged drug lord puts the island nation on the brink of civil war.
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by Ryan Grim onJune 25, 2009
In an excerpt from the new book This is Your Country on Drugs, Ryan Grim explains how the press covered for the CIA in the Iran-Contra drug scandal that rocked the black community in the '90s.
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by Kai Wright onJanuary 6, 2009
Decades after the feds copped their first hit, help is on the way.
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