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The death penalty: What a price to pay
by Tim Young Tim Young The death penalty. To abolish or not to abolish? The topic has become contentious. As poor and middle class Americans fight to survive the recession, opposition to the death...
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Defunding public education: an arresting development
by Tim Young Tim Young (2) Americans are facing the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression. States like California have responded by pulling the plug on public education. Other options...
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We the people are the enemy
by Tim Young We the people are the enemy … “we” meaning the poor and the middle class. Some may disagree, but blind patriotism is typically the root of their disbelief. Black folks need no convincing,...
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Just when you thought it was SAFE
by Tim Young San Quentin’s shiny new death chamber – Photo: AP When I first arrived to San Quentin’s death row in April of 2006, the topic of discussion at that time revolved around building a new...
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Starve the beast
by Tim Young Tim Young Plantation toil, penitentiary moil, where slavery ends The Prison Industrial Complex begins Check your history 1863 to the 21st century Wanton misery, no mystery, Statistics...
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We don’t heel, we kneel!
by Tim Young As a member of Generation X, as I reflect back on my youth, only one person comes to mind when it comes to laying it all on the line – and that’s Tupac Shakur! When it came to speaking...
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Props 62 and 66: Death penalty debate behind enemy lines
Read the perspectives of Spoon Jackson, serving a sentence of Life Without the Possibility of Parole (LWOP), “the other death penalty,” at Lancaster State Prison near Los Angeles, and Tim Young, on San...
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Put your money where your knee is!
“When you’re trying to raise a #woke baby, you dress him as Kaepernick for Halloween,” Hana Pugh, mother of 14-month-old Ceron Pugh III, called CP3, wrote on Instagram. His dad, an Army captain and...
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The jig is up!
by Tim Young Tell me, what does it mean when a white adjudicator is unmoved by the racism, oppression and police terror that Black folks in this country are subjected to but becomes unhinged when a...
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