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Archive for August 10th, 2007

10 Aug

Black Victims and Violent Crime

I had hoped to kick off the weekend with a fun post of some kind, but there is chilling news: the latest study issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that black people are victims of nearly 50% of the murders in this country despite being only 13% of the population.
Around 8,000 of [...]