President Barack Obama browses crafts and antiques at Grasshoppers store in LeClaire, Iowa, Aug. 16, 2011, during a three-day bus tour in the Midwest. Photo by Pete Souza
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We’ve lost a champion. Rest in power, Julian. sp.lc/QX8aB #JulianBond http://t.co/pN3RwcVlbz
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SPLC (@splcenter) August 16, 2015
Devastated to hear about Julian Bond's passing. He was true American hero, champion of civil rights #RIP http://t.co/pf14bYiuI4
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Ari Berman (@AriBerman) August 16, 2015
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SPLCenter: We’ve Lost A Champion
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of legendary civil rights activist Julian Bond, SPLC’s first president. He was 75 years old and died last evening, August 15, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. From his days as the co-founder and communications director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s to his chairmanship of the NAACP in the 21st century,
Julian was a visionary and tireless champion for civil and human rights. He served as the SPLC’s president from our founding in 1971 to 1979, and later as a member of its board of directors. With Julian’s passing, the country has lost one of its most passionate and eloquent voices for the cause of justice. He advocated not just for African Americans, but for every group, indeed every person subject to oppression and discrimination, because he recognized the common humanity in us all
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Breaking: Administration to restore Pell grants for prison inmates in effort to cut recidivism. on.wsj.com/1LOokNv via @WSJ
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Andrew Cohen (@JustADCohen) July 27, 2015
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WSJ: Pell Grants To Be Restored For Prisoners
The Obama administration plans to restore federal funding for prison inmates to take college courses. The plan would allow potentially thousands of inmates in the U.S. to gain access to Pell grants, the main form of federal aid for low-income college students. The grants cover up to $5,775 a year in tuition, fees, books and other education-related expenses. Prisoners received $34 million in Pell grants in 1993, according to figures the Department of Education provided to Congress at the time.
But a year later, Congress prohibited state and federal prison inmates from getting Pell grants as part of broad anticrime legislation, leading to a sharp drop in the number of in-prison college programs. Between the mid-1990s and 2013, the U.S. prison population doubled to about 1.6 million inmates, many of them repeat offenders, Justice Department figures show. A 2013 study by the Rand Corp. found that inmates who participated in education programs, including college courses, had significantly lower odds of returning to prison than inmates who didn’t.
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"By launching a self-defeating jihad against Obama" Netanyahu has ensured that no one will listen to a word he says
politico.com/magazine/story…
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Chemi Shalev (@ChemiShalev) August 15, 2015
Perhaps most succinct explanation of who is 2 blame 4 Isis. U get 2 guesses at the 2 culprits
buff.ly/1DN6BFj http://t.co/j8MgAvNlPN
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Patrick M (@andendall) August 14, 2015
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If "All Lives Matter," then why don't we have Universal Healthcare? And why are prisons privatized? And why are there still homeless people?
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Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) August 15, 2015
Tomorrow's mag: Feidin Santana filmed the death of Walter Scott. Now he fears for his own safety. He tells his story http://t.co/r54NWJNMUs
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Guardian Weekend (@guardianweekend) August 14, 2015
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"I have not forgiven."—Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, on justice: thecut.io/1DPy4Wx #BlackLivesMatter http://t.co/y853MoXzII
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The Cut (@TheCut) August 13, 2015
Missouri cop brags about spending his "annual Michael Brown bonus" on vacation bit.ly/1PrTOta http://t.co/RNHfwCZR7c
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) August 15, 2015
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a man took the audio of the media's commentary of BLACK PROTESTORS and put it over a video of white rioters. http://t.co/AgK1qz6WKj
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plain jane (@thinkbri) June 23, 2015
WATCH: British reporter in Ferguson finds whites openly carrying rifles and peaceful blacks being arrested rawstory.com/2015/08/watch-… Amerikkka.
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Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) August 11, 2015
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Double BOOM
I identify as "race that can do pretty much any crime and get taken into custody alive."
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Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) June 18, 2015
@ConnorPatrick What is, you're an idiot.
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Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) June 18, 2015
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SHOCKER: Bush lied about meeting with #BlackLivesMatter in Nevada.
huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush…
@dliebelson http://t.co/6fC5zaagXM
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Adam Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 14, 2015
Here's where we were wrong: we thought George was Fredo, when all along Jeb was Fredo.
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Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) August 14, 2015
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Monticello’s whitewashed version of history wpo.st/XTvU0
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Alycee (@jazziz2) August 15, 2015
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President Barack Obama has breakfast with small business owners at Rausch’s Cafe in Guttenberg, Iowa, during a three-day bus tour in the Midwest, Aug.16, 2011. Photo by Pete Souza
President Barack Obama signs H.R. 2097, the Star-Spangled Banner Commemorative Coin Act, at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, Aug. 16, 2010. Photo by Pete Souza
Television microphones hang in the air as the media listens in while a Park Ranger explains the site to President Barack Obama and family during a tour of the Grand Canyon on Aug. 16, 2009. Photo by Pete Souza
President Barack Obama looks at the Grand Canyon in Arizona on Aug. 16, 2009. Photo by Pete Souza
President Barack Obama talks with people at Grasshoppers store in LeClaire, Iowa, Aug. 16, 2011, during a three-day bus tour in the Midwest. Photo by Pete Souza
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