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Why This Company Wants You in Prison

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By Jesse Lava and Sarah Solon

“CCA” has become a dirty word.

Kanye West cited it when rapping about America’s class of “New Slaves.” Anonymous invoked it to describe a bad financial investment that undermines justice. And for state after state, the word represents a failed approach to public safety.

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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Universal Struggle for African Freedom: 50 Years Later- A Pan African Perspective

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By Ed Brown
August 28, 2013, marked the 50th Anniversary of the historic March on Washington. On this day in 1963 more than two-hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) people came to Washington, from all corners of America, to march for freedom, jobs and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill.

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