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**FILE** President Donald Trump (center) gestures as Alveda King, niece of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during a signing ceremony for S. 756, First Step Act and H.R. 6964, Juvenile Justice Reform Act with Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, second left, and Representative Virginia Foxx, a Republican from North Carolina, right, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

BROWN: Response to The First Step Act

by WI Web Editor January 6, 2019October 31, 2020

President Donald Trump makes an announcement regarding the First Step Act prison reform bill in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Nov. 14, 2018. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Marc Morial, Op-Ed, Opinion

MORIAL: First Step Act the Most Important Federal Criminal Justice Reform in Decades

by WI Guest Author December 26, 2018October 31, 2020

Courtesy of Trice Edney News Wire

Black Experience

Congress Moves to Help Inmates in Federal Prisons But Not in Predominately Black State Prisons

by WI Guest Author December 26, 2018October 31, 2020

Courtesy of JOTF

EDITORIAL: Is Congress Serious About ‘Justice for All?’

by WI Guest Author December 19, 2018October 31, 2020

Courtesy of iStockphoto via NNPA

Black Experience

Justice System Flaws Still Harming Black Children: DOJ

by WI Guest Author December 18, 2018October 31, 2020

President Donald Trump makes an announcement regarding the First Step Act prison reform bill in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Nov. 14, 2018. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Trump Touts Criminal-Justice Reform Bill

by WI Guest Author November 15, 2018October 31, 2020

Voters wait for their turn in one of the voting booths at Eleanor McMain School in New Orleans on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Marc Morial, Op-Ed, Opinion

MORIAL: Deep South States Take Long-Overdue Step Out of Jim Crow Past

by WI Guest Author November 14, 2018October 31, 2020

Nkechi Taifa

Black Experience

Nkechi Taifa to Leave Open Society Foundations, Start Own Firm

by WI Guest Author October 17, 2018October 31, 2020

Marc Morial, Op-Ed, Opinion

MORIAL: Jobs Program Taps into Potential of Formerly Incarcerated

by WI Guest Author October 17, 2018October 31, 2020

Hundreds of demonstrators rally at 20th Street and Massachusetts Ave in northwest D.C. in support of federally legalizing marijuana and in protest of Sen. Jeff Sessions, newly elected President Trump's pick of attorney general, on Jan 20. (Travis Riddick/The Washington Informer)

BAKER: Let’s Talk About Economic Justice Before Legalizing Marijuana

by WI Guest Author June 27, 2018October 31, 2020