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Review of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
I'll admit, when I first heard the title of this best-selling book, I, as a black man, was taken aback. I scoffed at the notion that anyone could attempt to make a sound case for comparing the atrocious Jim Crow segregation laws of the 50s and 60s with today's â...
Review of The Great Bridge by David McCullough
David McCullough's The Great Bridge is an extraordinary book. It tells the tale of how the Brooklyn Bridge was conceived and built. As is the case with other McCullough works, it is superbly crafted and reads as well as any great work of fiction. The main focus of the...
“The System” Is Not Broken
It's true: the American criminal justice system is not broken â it's doing exactly what it is designed to do. Far gone are the days when the only things that distinguished prisons from college campuses were the barbed-wired fences, gun towers, and . . . oh yeah, the...
Inmate Art: Muse of the Builder
This piece is from our friend J.E. Forbes in Pennsylvania.
Calling All Angels: Stamps, please!
We are working night and day on a few projects - one of which is catching up with a significant backlog of mail. We owe several hundred replies which must go out through regular USPS mail, and that means .... we need stamps. Lots of stamps. This is an easy and...
An Open Letter To Survivors of Gun Violence
Our hearts are saddened. I know this event just happened and you're trying to make sense of it. You can't. Crazy people have been doing senseless stuff like this since time began. Whether it was the Romans massacring Jewish people or terrorists flying planes in...