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New Study: Innocent Blacks Seven Times More Likely to be Wrongfully Convicted of Murder Than Innocent Whites By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Published March 4, 2021 “The legacy of slavery, racist Jim Crow laws, and hateful lynching has translated into modern-day mass incarceration and the disproportionate imprisonment of Black people,” Daniele Selby wrote for The Innocence Project. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA) According to the latest report from The Innocence Project, innocent Black people are seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicte...

Joan Smalls, who in 2013 was named among the highest paid in the modelling world, has teamed with industry and activism heavyweights to bring sweeping inclusion to fashion

Who killed Stacey Stites? This story is local to me and there is so much controversy surrounding it, I decided to looker deeper into the case back in October 2019. I did a podcast on it and while preparing for that podcast, I drove to the location of where Stacey was killed. Shorty, after the podcast, Stacey Stites story became national news as Rodney Reed’s date of execution was near and the Innocent Project was fighting for, at the very least, a stay of execution. The following story will give you the background on the Stacey Stites case and my meeting with Rodney Reed’s mom, Sandra...