[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- The Death Penalty, Race, and the Victim
- [Sociological Images - lisa]
Scholars are newly looking to the way that the race of homicide victims, instead of the defendants, shape outcomes. It turns out a disproportionate number of people who are executed under the death penalty have been convicted of murdering a white person…
- Congratulations, Gregory Hlibok!
- [FWD/Forward - s.e. smith]
This is the first time the head of the FCC’s disability rights office has been a disabled person. The reason they thought it might be a good idea to get a PWD heading the office? Because they are getting ready to start work on developing a framework for enforcing the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, and, hey, maybe a disabled person would know a little something something about that kind of thing!
What does the disability rights office do, exactly? Some important stuff:…
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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