Retaliation or policy? Graduation drama with former South Side High School student
Nikki Tabron-Booker
Special Correspondent
FORT WAYNE—For most high school seniors, this is the season for caps and gowns,...
$10.3 million proposed for eugenics compensation
N.C. governor to ask lawmakers to OK funds for verified victims
By Herbert L. White
Special to the NNPA
from the Charlotte Post
CHARLOTTE—North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue’s proposed budget will include $10.3 million for people involuntarily sterilized by the state.
Perdue, a Democrat who is not seeking reelection, said the money would be used for $50,000 payments to verified victims of the former N.C. Eugenics Board program, which sterilized more than 7,000 residents over nearly 50 years. Some of the money would fund...
War On Drugs
Critic says arrest numbers don’t reflect user truth
NNPA COLUMNIST
Gary L. Flowers
Contrary to public opinion, white people in the U.S. account for more arrests for drug use than do people of color. Yet, the widely-held and erroneous belief that 1) most drug crimes are committed by people of color, and 2) most people of color commit drug crimes that result in the disproportionate imprisonment of non-whites. How did America become come to target people of color for socalled “war on drugs?”
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