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Apr 18, 2017 · ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: James Forman Jr. may change the way you think about the mass incarceration of African-Americans on drug charges. Foreman is a law professor at Yale who used to be a public...
May 29, 2020 · This mantra is what may be called “dog-whistle politics” (13th) which really referred to the movements of black liberation, antiwar, and gay rights. The wave of protests and sensational trials during the period rendered persuasion of whites easy to think they needed this “war on drugs.”
Dec 17, 2016 · Transcript. Filmmaker Ava DuVernay talks about her new documentary, 13TH, which explores the history of race and the criminal justice system in the United States. The film's title refers to...
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader.
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- Biography, Comedy, Crime
- Spike Lee
- 2018-08-10
With Benicio Del Toro, Jacob Vargas, Andrew Chavez, Michael Saucedo. A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Steven Soderbergh
- 2001-01-05
Apr 11, 2017 · Eric Holder, who would become Barack Obama’s attorney general, may have played the most astonishing role in escalating the war on crime.
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Members of the Hollywood Ten and their families in 1950, protesting the impending incarceration of the ten. The Hollywood blacklist was an entertainment industry blacklist in the mid-20th century in the United States during the early years of the Cold War, in Hollywood and elsewhere. Actors, screenwriters, directors, musicians, and other ...
