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Weldon Angelos poses for a photograph Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022, in West Jordan, Utah. President Joe Biden’s executive action pardoning Americans with federal convictions for simple marijuana possession will benefit thousands of people by making it easier for them to find housing, get a job or apply to college. Angelos, whose 2003 federal case for selling $300 worth of marijuana to a confidential informant in Utah got him sentenced to 55 years in prison, said he knows many people who will benefit from the president’s pardon. But there are also many more who will not, he said. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Racial equity in marijuana pardons requires states’ action
By AARON MORRISON - Associated Press
Sat,10/08/22-1:23PM , 136 Reads
By pardoning Americans with federal convictions for marijuana possession, President Joe Biden said he aimed to partially redress decades of anti-drug laws that disproportionately harmed Black and Latino communities.
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FILE — President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt forgiveness in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Aug. 24, 2022, in Washington. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona listens at right. Many have cheered President Joe Biden's proposal to provide student loan forgiveness to millions of Americans as a significant step toward addressing the nation's racial wealth gap and other inequities facing borrowers of color. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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Student loan relief limited for many by US drug war's legacy
By AARON MORRISON - Associated Press
Tue,08/30/22-4:07AM , 254 Reads
President Joe Biden says he hopes his proposal to forgive federal student loans will narrow the nation's racial wealth gap.
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Starmanie Jackson holds her child, Gabriella, during a news conference Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in Detroit. At the time of her incarceration in April 2019, Jackson, an impoverished single mother of 2- and 4-year-old children, had her bail set at $700 over outstanding traffic tickets and a charge alleging domestic violence. Because she could not afford to pay, Jackson, who had never been arrested before, was separated from her children for the first time in their lives. Michigan's largest district court and bail reform advocates announced the settlement of a class-action lawsuit against bail practices in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Detroit cash bail reforms to strike at racial inequality
By AARON MORRISON - Associated Press
Mon,07/11/22-11:05PM , 286 Reads
Michigan’s largest district court and bail reform advocates agreed Tuesday to settle a federal class-action lawsuit over cash bail practices, which activists say routinely and unconstitutionally jail poor and working class defendants despite evidence of their inability to pay.
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Robert Dabney Jr. poses for a photo in Chicago, Monday, June 13, 2022. As a coalition of current and former military servicemembers hold the first-ever convening for Black veteran advocates in the nation's capital this month, they hope to draw attention to long-standing racial, economic and social inequities facing more than 2 million Black American veterans. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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Black veteran groups seek policy agenda on racial inequities
By AARON MORRISON - Associated Press
Thu,06/23/22-8:14AM , 134 Reads
As a young man in Memphis, Tennessee, Robert Dabney Jr. wanted to blaze a path that could set his family up for a better life. So two weeks after high school graduation in 1998, at age 18, he joined the U.S. Army.
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