Ahmaud Arbery, a 25 year-old black man, left his mom’s home for his daily jog. He was chased down and killed by
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College Behind Bars on PBS follows a group of BPI students working to earn degrees in prison and defying common expectations of who college is for.
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How Did We Get Here Vern Braswell, a Black defendant, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Sheila, in 2004 in Shelby County (Memphis), Tennessee. Sheila was discovered
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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 The History of Braswell’s TriaI Lawyer By the time Braswell made it to his second appeal around 2009, his trial lawyer, Javier Bailey, was well on his way to being
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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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9/29/20 The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker  NATIONAL ISSUES Contact all Federal Members of Congress(includes contact info and links
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By @BlackDefendants It don’t matter if you’re Black or White. – Michael Jackson, 1991 Clearly he’s never been charged in a criminal case in Memphis, TN or anywhere in the deep south
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If you’ve voted before, you won’t be surprised to see a number of slates empty or with only one candidate running for sheriff, public attorney, or judicial roles, which has helped fuel
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