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Could Big Data Reduce the Prison Population?

  Technology Could Prove As Important As Legislation Eric Easte Better use of technology and data could help solve the problem of mass incarceration. That's one conclusion that...

Urban Prep Academy Turns Boys into Scholars in Chicago’s Roughest Neighborhoods

by Curtis Bunn CHICAGO — In some of Chicago’s lowest income neighborhoods, African-American teenage boys are overcoming their challenging surroundings. They are the young men...

Artist: Will Miss 10th Post-Katrina Mardi Gras

By Eric Easter Jennifer Renee Johnson desperately misses New Orleans during Mardi Gras. But the New Orleans she misses, she says, no longer exists. Johnson is...

Drexel’s ‘Healing Hurt People’ Program Helps Young Victims Recover from Emergency Room Trauma

By Curtis Bunn Sobering facts: For every black youth murdered in Philadelphia, 90 others experience grave injuries, including gunshot and stabbing wounds. Each year, more...

Black Republicans Back Trump as Democratic Mayors Unveil Urban Agenda

By Michael H. Cottman Days before the Iowa caucuses, the nation's largest association of black Republicans is endorsing Donald Trump, a candidate with little history of working...

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