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Celebrities for Justice: Time to End Mandatory Minimums

The piece originally appeared in the American Constitution Society blog. by  Nkechi Taifa, Esq.   Celebrities have a major impact on causes they embrace. I first witnessed this while working in the Free South Africa movement during the early 1980s, when tennis giant Arthur Ashe and legendary singer Harry Belafonte led a successful cultural boycott of South

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166 Groups Urge President Obama to Preserve Funding for Syringe Exchange

The House is threatening to restore the ban on using federal funds for syringe programs at a time when 12% of all new HIV infections in the US occur among injection drug users.

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Congress: Pass the End Racial Profiling Act of 2011

OSPC and various civil and human rights organizations ask U.S. senators to pass the End Racial Profiling Act and establish a prohibition on racial profiling.

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