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Now the train was greyflying past instants of trees and quick spaces of field and a motionless sky that sped darkening away in the opposite direction.
The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor
The Snyder-Gray case spawned not only Double Indemnity but a nifty little film called Picture Snatcher. Released in 1933, the movie stars James Cagney,
Ripped From the Headlines!
Harold Schechter
Mass incarceration is, ultimately, a problem of troublesome entanglements. To war seriously against the disparity in unfreedom requires a war against a disparity in resources. And to war against a disparity in resources is to confront a history in which both the plunder and the mass incarceration of blacks are accepted commonplaces. Our current debate over criminal-justice reform pretends that it is possible to disentangle ourselves without significantly disturbing the other aspects of our lives, that one can extract the thread of mass incarceration from the larger tapestry of racist American policy.
We Were Eight Years in Power
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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