BY: SETH WILLIAMS Black men and women make up just 13% of the total U.S. population, but comprise 40% of the U.S. prison population. Sadly, though, the practice of subjugating people of color in America is not new. In an interview with PBS in 2003, Ira Berlin describes the aftermath of Bacon’s Rebellion three hundred […]
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