In the News:
Published on our blog:
- Jacqueline Lantsman, Fast-Tracking Second Chance: Increasing Odds for Parole on Life Sentences (Jan. 16, 2020)
- Divya Anand, Moving Beyond Equity in Education (Apr. 7, 2020)
- Jacqueline Lantsman, Pell Grant Expansion is Key During the Recession (May 13, 2020)
- Monica Cannon-Grant and David J. Harris, Structural racism is the real pandemic (May 17, 2020)
- David J. Harris, What if we eliminated the police? (June 4, 2020)
- David J. Harris, The phrase ‘criminal justice system’ has to go (June 28, 2020)
- Marty Blatt and David J. Harris, Faneuil Hall name change needed (Aug. 4, 2020)
- Shira Schoenberg, Defendant demands in-person, not virtual, day in court (Dec. 2, 2020)
About a Mass. SJC case in which we filed an amicus brief
- Dasia Moore and Deanna Pan, In a close election, some Black Americans see a clear winner: Racism (Nov. 4, 2020)
Quoting David J. Harris
- Jean Trounstine, Revocation Nation: Reincarceration for Technical Parole Violations in the Age of COVID-19 (Sept. 15, 2020)
Quoting Katy Naples-Mitchell on the injustice of parole revocations for technical violations
- Christina Pazzanese, After the protest … what next? (June 11, 2020)
Quoting David J. Harris - Liz Mineo, Juneteenth in a time of reckoning (June 18, 2020)
Quoting David J. Harris - Clea Simon, Rewriting history — to include all of it this time (June 19, 2020)
About an event we cosponsored with the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, “A Conversation on Tulsa and the Long History of Dispossession of African Americans: What We Don’t Know.” - Liz Mineo, Curating the experience of Black America in the age of pandemic (Sep. 10, 2020)
About “Black America and COVID-19,” a joint project with Harvard Library
- Brett Milano, Confronting allegations of racial profiling in Massachusetts (Oct. 14, 2020)
Interview with Katy Naples-Mitchell
- Jenifer B. McKim, First County Jail Inmate Dies Of COVID Complications (Apr. 30, 2020)
Quoting Katy Naples-Mitchell - Jenifer B. McKim, Parole In Massachusetts: Free To Go, But Not To Leave (July 8, 2020)
Quoting Katy Naples-Mitchell
- Jean Trounstine, Koonce Makes “Compelling” Case in 5-Plus Hour Commutation Hearing (Oct. 28, 2020)
Quoting David J. Harris - Jean Trounstine, COVID Surges in Mass Prisons, Still No Plan to Decarcerate (Dec. 4, 2020)
Quoting Katy Naples-Mitchell
- Shira Schoenberg, SJC to hear case on racial bias in Boston policing (Jan. 7, 2020)
Quoting Katy Naples-Mitchell - Steph Solis, Massachusetts House leaders receive hundreds of emails with testimony on Senate policing bill, days before end of legislative session (July 17, 2020)
Quoting Katy Naples-Mitchell - Jackson Cote, Murder conviction in case against James J. Watson vacated after Boston native served 41 years in prison in cab driver’s 1979 killing (Nov. 11, 2020)
About a Suffolk Superior Court case in which we filed an amicus brief
- Aaron Velasco, Baker’s activation of Mass. National Guard draws mixed reactions (Sep. 27, 2020)
Quoting David J. Harris
- Adele Uphaus, James Monroe High School students partner with Harvard University to document their pandemic year (November 16, 2020)
About our youth video project Justflix
- Catherine Elton, How Has Boston Gotten Away with Being Segregated for So Long? (December 8, 2020)
Quoting David J. Harris
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