Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration. The Atlantic, October 2015. “American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they’ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report ‘The Negro Family’ tragically helped create this system, it’s time to reclaim his original intent.”
September 16, 2015
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
September 16, 2015 Filed Under: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Ethics, Politics, Poverty, Prisons/Jails, Racism Tagged With: "the negro family: the case for national action", article iv of the us constitution (fugitive slave clause), barack obama, bill clinton, crime rates, criminal justice system, daniel patrick moynihan, ferguson police department, frederick douglass, harriet tubman, j. edgar hoover, lynching, lyndon johnson, marcus garvey, martin luther king jr, mass incarceration, michael brown, poverty, racial zoning, richard nixon, slavery, underground railroad, war on drugs