Atlanta rap icon T.I. and the Exonerated Five are looking to help end the mass imprisonment of African Americans with a project planned by late Martin Luther King Jr.’s home church, Ebenezer Baptist Church, in Atlanta. The three-day End Mass Incarceration Conference will run Monday through Wednesday at the historic …
Read More »New York City Pays Family Of Kalief Browder $3.3 Million After Wrongful Imprisonment Drove Browder To Suicide
New York City will pay the family of the late Kalief Browder $3.3 million, following Browder’s suicide in 2015. Browder committed suicide after spending years in pretrial detention and solitary confinement on New York’s Rikers Island. After three years, his family has finally reached a settlement with New York City. …
Read More »Kalief Browder’s Brother, Akeem Browder, to Run for Mayor Against Bill De Blasio
The brother of a Bronx man whose story received national coverage after enduring traumatizing conditions on the infamous Riker’s Island has put in his ticket for City Hall. In an effort to carry on the legacy of his brother, Kalief Browder, who killed himself after years of emotional, physical and mental …
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