December 11, 2015

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Jury finds white Oklahoma City cop Daniel Holtzclaw guilty of 18 counts of rape and sexual assault, all against black women.

The full testimonies of the 13 women who accused Holtzclaw of rape and sexual assault.

Holtzclaw’s mistake that got him caught: assuming all black women in Oklahoma City wouldn’t call the cops on him.

Angola warden Burl Cain to step down over shady real estate deals with favored inmates’ relatives.

The investigation into Burl Cain’s real estate dealings that forced his resignation.

The Angola 3: three prisoners, jailed under questionable evidence, who endured decades of solitary confinement.

Angola, a former plantation, forces much of its 75% black population to pick cotton and other crops for up to 20 cents an hour.

How Louisiana became the world’s prison capital, with the highest rate of incarceration on the planet.

Over the past decade, tens of thousands of children have been arrested—sometimes violently—by San Bernardino school police.

Report finds quality of education for tens of thousands of minors in detention falls short of an average public school education.

Abuse and deaths at for-profit Florida group homes for the disabled, and how the company skirts sanctions and regulators.

Reagan-era sentencing guidelines led to a Charlotte, NC, mother of two receiving a life sentence for a first-time drug charge.

Study finds mandatory voting laws lead to the adoption of leftist policies.

A friend warned…if I did want to see the Killing Fields, I should go in the morning, so the images wouldn’t end up in my dreams. An unplanned trip to Cambodia.

How Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam spent their political capital and lost their influence.

Two offices of the Muslim civil rights group evacuated by police after receiving envelopes filled with a “mysterious substance.”

Zuckerberg’s commitment-less promise to keep Facebook safe for Muslims won’t stop Trump from posting Islamophobia on Facebook.

“Were the, uhh, people of Facebook aware that they had a leader? How long has he been leading us? And…where?”

Today’s video: A motorized Lego sculpture of Sisyphus pushing a rock. #video