Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, addressed a crowd of about 500 at Howard University’s Rankin Chapel in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, as part of the Chapel’s series on connecting personal values and ethics with professional life.

From Breakthrough president and CEO Mallika Dutt:

Check our this new video from the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) and Next Generation Media on racial profiling in Rhode Island. A great collection of stories from community members advocating for the state's Comprehensive Racial profiling Prevention Act. 

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The Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition called on New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly and Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne to resign Thursday because of  a lack of confidence in their ability to lead the city's police department, given the high-raking officers' conflicting and untruthful statements about the NYPD's involvement in and use of an anti-Muslim propaganda film.

The FBI announced the arrest Tuesday of four members of the East Haven Police Department in Connecticut on charges that they assaulted Latino residents while on patrol.

The FBI accused the officers of terrorizing residents and making false reports to cover up the crimes against the Latino community.