The U.S. is deporting unauthorized migrants from Africa and Asia to Panama, a major diplomatic breakthrough for the Trump ...

Prisons, by contrast, generally hold felony offenders whose sentences are one year or longer. The lighter blue line at the top is the national trend for African-American incarceration in prisons ...

African-Americans have fought for the United States ... During this time the unit never lost any prisoners or territory to the enemy. France awarded the entire unit with Croix de Guerre, that ...

"I can tell you, being a political prisoner in a federal prison, that the young men in this country that are African American ...

The prison problem was especially challenging, as most prisons had been destroyed during the war. Previously, African-American slaves had been subjected to the punishments at the hands of their ...

After initially prosecuting those who tried to overthrow an election, Presidents Grant and Hayes backed down—with catastrophic results.

An example of how he imagines that musical culture can be heard on “Rosie,” a work song written by African-American prisoners at a Mississippi State Penitentiary work camp in the 1940s.

Why is there a disproportionate concentration of African American men in state and federal prisons? How are African American women portrayed in U.S. and world media? Find the answer to these and so ...

What is the U.S. prison population ... About 40 percent of inmates are African-American. These troubling facts have given rise to a "deincarceration" movement that has brought together both ...

The Town of West Hartford is hosting a special screening of the Netflix documentary "13th" followed by a panel discussion ...