On April 12, 1963, eight Alabama clergymen published an open letter, “A Call for Unity,” in a Birmingham newspaper in response to
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By @BlackDefendants HARVARD LAW GROUP DEEMS VERN BRASWELL’S PROSECUTOR ONE OF THE WORST IN AMERICA A study from Fair Punishment Project, a Harvard Law School initiative designed to create a fair and accountable justice system, ranked Shelby County DA Amy
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When it became clear that Trump was contesting votes in areas that were heavily populated by people of color, and that the Republicans were enabling him, I thought, When this is over,
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As I watch images of violent white-supremacist mobs in the streets and armed Trumpites threatening to lynch election officials, I’m reminded of the lessons that we of the 1960s Freedom Movement learned
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By Ma Wallace By Ma Wallace Cancer for a Black ManOn the streets of Tennessee during a pandemic Can be a critical situation… Cancer for any Black ManIn the prisons of Tennessee during
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By @BlackDefendants “This set of falsehoods is typical of the conduct of the Memphis D.A’s office during this period.”– Senior Justice Gilbert S. Merritt from Owens v. Guida 549 F.3d 399, 425
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By @BlackDefendants How smart are you really? Help us figure out what was in the envelope that prosecutors hid and what happened to it? “The two attorneys met, as they’d agreed. They sat
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By @BlackDefendants HARVARD LAW GROUP DEEMS VERN BRASWELL’S PROSECUTOR ONE OF THE WORST IN AMERICA A study from Fair Punishment Project, a Harvard Law School initiative designed to create a fair and
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By @BlackDefendants “It don’t matter if you’re Black or White” – Michael Jackson, 1991 “Only if you have money and lawyers like O. J. Simpson or Michael Jackson, oh okay, you said
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By @BlackDefendants “It don’t matter if you’re Black or White” Michael Jackson, 1991 “If you’re Black, it don’t matter if you did it or not” Vern Braswell, 2020 JURY DELIBERATIONS Jennifer Collins,
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By @BlackDefendants “It don’t matter if you’re Black or White” —Michael Jackson, 1991 “If he had been charged in Memphis, Shelby County, he’d probably be doing a residency at the Tennessee Dept
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