As Coronavirus Deepens Inequality, Inequality Worsens Its Spread The pandemic is widening social and economic divisions that also make the virus deadlier, a self-reinforcing cycle that experts warn could have consequences for years to come. As the coronavirus
Savannah 100 Foundation announces Gadsden Memorial Scholarship winners The Savannah 100 Foundation, Inc. awarded several Savannah students its prestigious 2019 Gadsden Memorial Scholarships at the Chatham County Courthouse on April 13. The Scholarships provide $2,000 and mentoring to
Even 14-Year-Olds Who Kill Are Not Adults If the young teens accused in Tessa Majors’s murder are convicted, a 1978 law could deny them a chance at redemption. Read the article on The New York Times: Click Here
The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’ From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial. Ten years have passed since my book, “The New Jim Crow,” was published. I wrote it to
Their ancestors were enslaved by law. Today, they are graduates of the nation’s preeminent historically black law school. In the history of the United States, black Americans were the only group for whom it was ever illegal to
Savannah 100 Foundation awards four Judge Eugene Gadsden scholarships Sarah Abdelrahim of Rincon will leave Savannah later this month for a month in Costa Rica where she will study Spanish as part of her career plan to become
The 1619 Project In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the English colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists.
When the Supreme Court banned capital punishment for crimes that were committed when a defendant was under the age of 18, it ruled that “standards of decency” had evolved to recognize that a juvenile’s “lack of maturity and an
