Why are we paying extra?
Taxpayers are paying extra dollars for security to keep Ghislaine Maxwell safe at her cushy “community college” prison in Texas.
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Julie Bolejack, MBA
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Black History Day 6: Criminalization as Control
Black History Fact: After Reconstruction, Southern states used “Black Codes” to criminalize everyday behavior, forcing Black men into prison labor that closely resembled slavery. Mass incarceration did not emerge spontaneously. Black history shows us that criminalization has long been used to maintain racial control when other methods became politically inconvenient.
Black History Month Day 5: The Myth of Equal Opportunity
Some truths sit quietly in the background of our national story, shaping lives without ever being spoken aloud. They show up in neighborhoods that look very different from one another, in retirement accounts that grow for some families but not others, in opportunities that appear effortless for one generation and
Black History Month Day 4: Education Is a Battleground
Black History Fact: In many Southern states, it was illegal for enslaved people to learn to read. Punishments included beatings, imprisonment, and death. Ignorance has always been enforced. Black history makes clear that education threatens oppression because it reveals alternatives. It teaches people to imagine themselves differently—and systems depend
Black History Month Day 3: Resistance is the story
Some mornings, the fatigue settles in before the coffee has time to work. Not the physical kind. The deeper weariness that comes from knowing that telling the truth, again and again, will cost something. That resisting what is wrong will never be efficient, tidy, or rewarded on a reasonable timeline.