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The Racist Reason Suburbs Are So Predominantly White

Have you ever wondered why the suburbs are so white? There is a very racist reason for it. It’s called redlining, the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today. This episode from Adam Ruins Everything does a great job of describing it.


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How America’s Justice System is Rigged Against the Poor

There are invisible cages that extend far beyond prison walls. Every year, more than 600,000 individuals are freed from America’s jails and prisons. But many of America’s formerly incarcerated people face numerous obstacles when integrating back into public life once free, according to Wes Caines and his former colleagues Scott Hechinger and Hannah McCrea at Brooklyn Defender Services, a public …