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[caption id="attachment_19627" align="aligncenter" width="978"] Visitors at Constitution Hill look at the display at the Women's Goal Museum which used to house female political prisoners.[/caption] South Africa Atlantic began its work in racial equity in the nascent years of post-Apartheid South Africa. In 1991, Atlantic’s Founding…

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By William Glaberson.  New York’s highest court ruled Thursday that a broad class-action suit challenging the state’s system of providing public defenders can move forward because there are enough signs that the system is failing poor people.The 4-to-3 ruling by the State Court of Appeals…

In a historic ruling on 12 August 2013, a federal judge found the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practices — which entail temporarily detaining people on the street, questioning them, and possibly also frisking or searching them — unconstitutional and racially discriminatory. This legal victory…

Proposed updates to the discipline code include an end to suspensions for students in grades K-2 For the first time, NYPD releases expanded school safety data on school-based arrests, summonses and handcuffing New scanning policy establishes official process based on data with NYPD oversight for…

This primer, funded by Atlantic and the Open Society Foundation, presents extensive statistics about the troubling police practice of stopping, questioning, and frisking pedestrians in New York City.The NumbersData show stops tend to be concentrated in a handful of police precincts and that the vast…

The New York Civil Liberties Union is an Atlantic grantee through the Reconciliation & Human Rights programme in the United States.January 8, 2013 —  The NYPD has a pattern and practice of illegally stopping innocent people in public areas outside thousands of private apartment buildings in…

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The number of student suspensions in New York City public schools spiked dramatically over the past decade while the length of suspensions grew longer – a phenomenon disproportionally affecting black students and students with disabilities, according to a report released today by the New York…

Advocacy groups are calling for a reduction in the use of police officers in schools. Photo: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesBy Molly KnefelAs students in New York City return to school for the fall, a coalition of youth and legal advocacy groups, including…