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  • Baltimore’s Latest Plan to Clamp Down on Crime: Tricking and Trapping Youths

    With the number of lethal and nonlethal shootings, robberies and assaults on the rise in Baltimore, police and government officials are clamoring for ways to make sense of what is happening. But even with public finger-pointing and posturing, there still isn’t a consensus about who should be blamed for the current dilemma. Some say judges…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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  • For the Record: 'Superpredators' Is Absolutely a Racist Term

    When Black Lives Matter activist Ashley Williams was kicked out of a Hillary Clinton fundraiser in North Carolina in February, she made headlines. Why? Because Williams demanded an apology from the Democratic presidential nominee for her use of the term “superpredators” during a 1996 speech in New Hampshire. As anyone who has even been half…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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