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Author |
: Jerry Ray |
Publisher |
: Trine Day |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2011-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781936296613 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1936296616 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Memoir of Injustice by : Jerry Ray
Including previously undisclosed information on one of the most significant and mysterious events in modern American history, this account debunks the myth that James Earl Ray was a racist and documents his actual location on one of the critical days leading up to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The memoir also reveals photographs of James Earl Ray when he was ill in prison and gives the key to a code used by the brothers in planning a prison break. Presenting a mesmerizing perspective on the manipulation of the media in reporting on race relations, the working middle class, and the U.S. criminal justice system, this account broadcasts an urgent call to action to correct some of the many injustices that surround these events, such as the U.S. government's refusal to rigorously test the alleged murder weapon, and encourages support for new federal legislation.
Author |
: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2010-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1429962151 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781429962155 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Picking Cotton by : Jennifer Thompson-Cannino
The New York Times best selling true story of an unlikely friendship forged between a woman and the man she incorrectly identified as her rapist and sent to prison for 11 years. Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released, after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed. Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face-- and forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives. With Picking Cotton, Jennifer and Ronald tell in their own words the harrowing details of their tragedy, and challenge our ideas of memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness.
Author |
: Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh |
Publisher |
: Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 139 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781483628448 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1483628442 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Standing Up Against Injustice by : Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh
Standing Up Against Injustice Standing Up Against Injustice is both inspirational and instructive, emotional and riveting. A key element of this book is a focus on The Gambia's human rights situation and political landscape political turmoil; prison conditions and the plight of prisoners; the death penalty and executions; detention without trial, disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial killings; and, political repression, and corruption. These are all addressed from Dr. Amadou Scattered Janneh's personal experience and knowledge as a trained journalist, political scientist, former cabinet minister, entrepreneur, former political prisoner sentenced to a life-term, and a leading critic of the dictatorial regime of President Yahya Jammeh. Standing Up Against Injustice looks at Amadou's evolution from a seemingly shy pupil at Gunjur Primary School to a budding activist at Saint Augustine's High School; from a leading anti-apartheid activist at The University of Tennessee to a cabinet minister, and a political prisoner jailed for life. There is an extensive discussion of prison conditions and his incarceration at the Gambia's notorious Mile II Central Prisons where he saw prisoners being dragged away for execution in August 2012. The book concludes with a discussion of events leading to Dr. Janneh's release from prison through the intervention of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and his expulsion to the United States in September 2012.
Author |
: Adama Bah |
Publisher |
: WW Norton |
Total Pages |
: 45 |
Release |
: 2021-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781324016649 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1324016647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Accused: My Story of Injustice (I, Witness) by : Adama Bah
Launching a propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young woman shares her harrowing experience of being wrongly accused of terrorism. Adama Bah grew up in East Harlem after immigrating from Conakry, Guinea, and was deeply connected to her community and the people who lived there. But as a thirteen-year-old after the events of September 11, 2001, she began experiencing discrimination and dehumanization as prejudice toward Muslim people grew. Then, on March 24, 2005, FBI agents arrested Adama and her father. Falsely accused of being a potential suicide bomber, Adama spent weeks in a detention center being questioned under suspicion of terrorism. With sharp and engaging writing, Adama recounts the events surrounding her arrest and its impact on her life—the harassment, humiliation, and persecution she faced for crimes she didn’t commit. Accused brings forward a crucial and unparalleled first-person perspective of American culture post-9/11 and the country’s discrimination against Muslim Americans, and heralds the start of a new series of compelling narrative nonfiction by young people, for young people.
Author |
: Michael E. Tigar |
Publisher |
: American Bar Association |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1590310152 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781590310151 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fighting Injustice by : Michael E. Tigar
In "Fighting Injustice", famed trial attorney Michael E. Tigar describes the battles - both inside and outside the courtroom - that have made him one of the world's most courageous defenders of personal freedoms. From his days as a student leader at the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1960s to his representation of Terry Nichols, the Oklahoma City federal building bombing conspirator, Tigar has championed personal rights and freedoms and has come to the aid of countless defendants in need of representation, regardless of the unpopularity of the cause.
Author |
: Brittany K. Barnett |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2021-08-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781984825803 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1984825801 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Knock at Midnight by : Brittany K. Barnett
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • A “powerful and devastating” (The Washington Post) call to free those buried alive by America’s legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity—from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system. “An essential book for our time . . . Brittany K. Barnett is a star.”—Van Jones, CEO of REFORM Alliance, CNN Host, and New York Times bestselling author Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever—that of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and, like Brittany, Black daughter of the rural South. A victim of America’s devastating war on drugs, Sharanda had been torn away from her young daughter and was serving a life sentence without parole—for a first-time drug offense. In Sharanda, Brittany saw haunting echoes of her own life, as the daughter of a formerly incarcerated mother. As she studied this case, a system came into focus in which widespread racial injustice forms the core of America’s addiction to incarceration. Moved by Sharanda’s plight, Brittany set to work to gain her freedom. This had never been the plan. Bright and ambitious, Brittany was a successful accountant on her way to a high-powered future in corporate law. But Sharanda’s case opened the door to a harrowing journey through the criminal justice system. By day she moved billion-dollar deals, and by night she worked pro bono to free clients in near hopeless legal battles. Ultimately, her path transformed her understanding of injustice in the courts, of genius languishing behind bars, and the very definition of freedom itself. Brittany’s riveting memoir is at once a coming-of-age story and a powerful evocation of what it takes to bring hope and justice to a system built to resist them both. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
Author |
: Ruth Auguste |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 150 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1432780212 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781432780210 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Children of Injustice by : Ruth Auguste
Many of us cannot imagine what it would be like to be deeply vulnerable and without protection in a poor and corrupt country. It is beyond the scope of what we know how to think. But for orphans and abused children in Haiti, this unimaginable nightmare is their daily reality. In The Children of Injustice, Ruth Auguste tells the searing story of her childhood, and shows the stark truth of orphaned children in a country lacking compassion for its most fragile citizens. At fifteen years old, Ruth was left to raise her three brothers, and to become an adult while still a child herself. She struggled against a society where orphans were treated as second-class citizens, taken in as slaves, malnourished, neglected, forced to sleep on concrete floors, and shockingly exploited. But Ruth never stopped longing for a better life a life she had to reach for and create for herself. Betrayed by her family, betrayed by her country, Ruth broke out of an existence of crushing desperation to write this book, and to provide hope and a helping hand to those who suffer now as she once suffered herself. Proceeds from the purchase of this book will go to help Ruths World Gifters Society, which provides shelter and protection to boys and girls who are living on the streets in Haiti.
Author |
: Shaun King |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780358048008 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0358048001 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Make Change by : Shaun King
Activist and journalist Shaun King reflects on the events that made him one of the most prominent social justice leaders of our time and lays out a clear action plan for you to join the fight--with a foreword from Bernie Sanders
Author |
: Rafael A. Mangual |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-07-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1546001522 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781546001522 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Criminal (in)Justice by : Rafael A. Mangual
In his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of "justice" through mass-decarceration and depolicing. After a summer of violent protests in 2020--sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks--a dangerously false narrative gained mainstream acceptance: Criminal justice in the United States is overly punitive and racially oppressive. But, the harshest and loudest condemnations of incarceration, policing, and prosecution are often shallow and at odds with the available data. And the significant harms caused by this false narrative are borne by those who can least afford them: black and brown people who are disproportionately the victims of serious crimes. In Criminal (In)Justice, Rafael A. Mangual offers a more balanced understanding of American criminal justice, and cautions against discarding traditional crime control measures. A powerful combination of research, data-driven policy journalism, and the author's lived experiences, this book explains what many reform advocates get wrong, and illustrates how the misguided commitment to leniency places America's most vulnerable communities at risk. The stakes of this moment are incredibly high. Ongoing debates over criminal justice reform have the potential to transform our society for a generation--for better or for worse. Grappling with the data--and the sometimes harsh realities they reflect--is the surest way to minimize the all-too-common injustices plaguing neighborhoods that can least afford them.
Author |
: David S. Rudolf |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2022-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0008525099 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780008525095 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Injustice by : David S. Rudolf
From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix's The Staircase comes an essential examination of America's corrupt and abusive criminal justice system.