25 Years of Crack Sentencing
July 28, 2009 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under engage, race
Twenty-five years ago this year, the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted for, and President Reagan signed, the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act creating mandatory minimums and disparate penalties for crack cocaine offenses. In the twenty-five years since its enactment, the disparate sentencing, falling along racial lines, has created a groundswell of community [...]
Children Become Collateral Damage on City Streets
June 30, 2009 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under engage
Mary Mitchell writes in The Chicago Sun-Times on the death of a 9 year old girl in Chicago. Her father was the intended target and she has to pay for his sins with her life. This is heartbreaking and shameful. It happens every day and no one seems to care. I didn’t believe for a [...]
Chicago: Unsafe for Children
May 8, 2009 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under engage
Much has been made about Chicago’s political corruption and the Chicago political “mafia” in Washington, DC given President Obama’s election. However, the story that isn’t receiving its due is Chicago’s uncontrollable homicide rate of teenagers in the city. As CNN reports, teenagers are dying weekly on Chicago streets: So far this school year, 36 [...]
Unsafe in Your Own Home
April 6, 2009 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under featured articles
If you are like me, you consider your home as your sanctuary, a place you can go and block out all of the world’s nastiness, renew yourself, and be at peace. This is especially true if you live alone. Everything is in its place. You have a certain comfort. You don’t realize how much that peace and comfort is fleeting, until someone comes and destroys it.
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