Today we try something new! Enjoy our discussion of hotly debated news items that stood out to us. We talk FAKE NEWS and the recent democratic effort to alter the 13th Amendment.

References:

Sean Hannity talks Fake News:

https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/hannity-on-media-mob-bidens-immigration-policy

Washington Post article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/19/13th-amendment-prisons-juneteenth/

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431

Community response to crime of the Babemba Tribe in South Africa:

https://fetzer.org/resources/practice-remind-people-their-goodness

Summary of incarceration rates from the 1920s to the 1980s:

https://www.nap.edu/read/18613/chapter/2

Recent data on incarceration rates:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/02/americas-incarceration-rate-is-at-a-two-decade-low/

Incarceration rates if every state were a country:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2018.html

WGtClU6OOSaxmDmoIH14