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Podcast: Turning A Moment Into A Movement
Episode: TURNING A MOMENT INTO A MOVEMENT.... "The Great Divide...Crime and Punishment in Black America"
Description: Systemic racism has led to the mass incarceration of Black People in America…
As of 2019, Black people are 14% of the U. S. population… and 40% of the U. S. incarcerated population …. for every 100,00 black person, 2,306 black people are either in the prison, on parole or probation system.
Black males were incarcerated at the rate of 4,347 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents.
There are more African American men incarcerated in the U.S. than the total prison populations in India, Argentina, Canada, Lebanon, Japan, Germany, Finland, Israel and England combined."
There are only 19 million Africa...