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Print this article In this Aug. 1, 2020, file photo, from left to right, Los Angeles Lakers' Anthony Davis, LeBron James and Quinn Cook kneel before an NBA basketball game against the Toronto Raptors in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Ashley Landis/AP) The NBA’s pandemic restart was a perfect time to sow the seeds of social justice. And as the league tips off its new season, now is the time to reap. An activist group has taken out a full-page advertisement in the New York Timescalling on the league to force the sale of one of its teams. The team is the Detroit Pistons. The o...

Alabama prisons: ON STRIKE! Occupied Muscogee Creek / Cherokee / Yuchi / Choctaw / Shawnee / Chickasaw land As of Jan. 1, 2021, incarcerated workers in Alabama’s odious prison system are on strike!  Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers throughout the state of Alabama have put down their work tools and refused to go to work from now until Jan. 31. The inhumane conditions of Alabama Department of Corrections, their negligence around COVID-19, and their implementation of video visitation equipment in prisons that ADOC claims is “due to COVID,” but is really a front for ...

Precinct Reporter Group News Stopping Exploitation of Prisoners Requires Comprehensive Solutions By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.  2020 brought renewed global focus to issues of social justice in America.  From the racial disparities and inequities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic to the killings of George Floyd and so many other Black and Brown Americans at the hands of police officers have all contributed to the evolving social justice “reckoning” across the nation. As part of this long overdue redress about institutional and systemic rac...

Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores spoke to the media on Saturday, addressing a nonprofit group's push to have him sell the team.

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Fla. Appeals Court Won't Undo Prison Phone Contract Law360 (December 22, 2020, 6:13 PM EST) -- A Florida appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of Securus Technologies Inc.'s protest to a contract awarded to a rival company for inmate phone services with the Florida Department of Corrections over concerns the award did not comply with the department's initial request. In a short per curiam decision, a three-judge First District Court of Appeal panel affirmed the DOC decision to dismiss Securus' bid protest on an administrative law judge's recommendation a...