Welcome to the latest issue of Greenlining’s #ResistReport, which appears on our blog every Thursday. With so many harmful policies coming out of Washington, we hope this will help our friends and supporters plug into grassroots activities to resist these…
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“After being in prison, I just wanted to live again…a second chance at life.” – Tio During the height of the racist war on drugs, the police arrested my Tio (uncle in Spanish) and locked him up. He spent five years… Continue reading 
Lots of white folks have trouble understanding the concept of white privilege. They don’t feel particularly privileged, and its operation is pretty much invisible to most whites. So a while back I wrote a blog post to try to explain… Continue reading 
It’s not being given a second chance. It’s being given the chance that was never given at all. Today, July 31st 2015, the Obama administration announced a pilot program that would provide Pell Grants to some incarcerated individuals who are… Continue reading 
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been in the news a lot lately for publicly opposing Indiana legislation (since amended) that could have fostered discrimination against LGBT Indianans. As applause-worthy as that stand is, Apple continues to fail fundamental tests of… Continue reading 
On Monday night the county grand jury investigating the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson decided not to indict the officer for the shooting. For millions of black and Latino Americans, this was… Continue reading 
Our criminal justice system is a disaster – so big a disaster that entire books (like Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow” and Matt Taibbi’s “The Divide”) only start to cover the waste, dysfunction and needlessly ruined lives. An incarceration… Continue reading 
The Ferguson, Missouri police shooting of Michael Brown has led to much commentary about race and policing from all sorts of writers and advocates, including me. A new report from The Sentencing Project adds important, unsettling information to the discussion.… Continue reading 
The ongoing controversies over the police shooting of black teenager Michael Brown and the broader relationship of law enforcement to people of color has stirred up memories of my one and only experience as a juror in a criminal trial.… Continue reading 
I’m going to stick my neck out and do something I wouldn’t normally do: Recommend a book I haven’t finished reading. But I’m going on vacation in a couple days, and don’t want this to wait: I’ve read enough to… Continue reading 
