Obama at Morehouse: Try Another Listen

Published June 9, 2013

Obama at Morehouse: Try Another Listen

Filed under: crack cocaine disparity

They seem to brush off the Fair Sentencing Act the president signed in 2010 that reduced the glaring disparity in punishment for those charged with crack offenses and those with powder cocaine offenses … To expect the president to introduce an … Read more on The Root

What’s wrong with mandatory minimum sentencing? – 9/14/07. Dr Alvin Poussaint explains how the pointless disparity in powder cocaine and crack rock sentencing is inherently racist.

The truth in Kanye's anti-prison rap

Filed under: crack cocaine disparity

But he is correct: The War on Drugs, abetted by and fueling the private prison industry, currently serves to incarcerate hundreds of thousands of black men in the United States, who provide dirt-cheap labor. Various industries — from call … The … Read more on Salon