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Kim Kardashian West Partners with Lyft to Provide 5,000 Former Prisoners With Transportation to Job Interviews

Kim Kardashian is problematic as hell. She’s also inexplicably gone from socialite to social justice superheroine as of late, being instrumental in commuting the life sentence of non-violent offender Alice Johnson; deploying her legal team to assist Cyntonia Brown in her eventual clemency; and unleashing her white privilege to address criminal justice reform and other…

By

Jay Connor

Published

June 17, 2019
Entertainment

Kim Kardashian Asks Governor for DNA Test to Help Man on Death Row

Kim Kardashian—who recently helped commute the sentence of 63-year-old Alice Johnson—is using her privilege yet again to bring attention to a prisoner she believes has been wrongly convicted. Saturday, Kardashian posted on Twitter asking California Gov. Jerry Brown if he could test the DNA of Kevin Cooper. Cooper has been on death row for 33…

By

Montana Couser

Published

June 18, 2018
Celebrity-Obsessed Trump Listens to Kim Kardashian, Commutes Alice Johnson’s Life Sentence

It might be time to run all of our presidential requests through Kim Kardashian West. President Donald Trump, appearing to heed the advice of the reality-TV star after their chat at the White House last week, has commuted the sentence of Alice Johnson, a black woman serving life for a nonviolent drug offense, Axios reports.…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

June 6, 2018
Entertainment

Kim Kardashian Hires Criminal Attorney to Help With Cases of 2 Jailed Black Women: Cyntoia Brown and Alice Johnson

Look at Kim Kardashian jumping in with tangible help for black women in trouble. According to reports, the famous-for-being-famous celeb has hired high-powered Los Angeles criminal attorney Shawn Holley (who was on the same O.J. Simpson “dream team” as Kardashian’s late father, Robert Kardashian) to help in the cases of two black women who have…

By

Angela Helm

Published

November 25, 2017