The link between criminal records and poverty w/ Christopher Ervin

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Today on the Live Drive @ 5 we will be speaking to Baltimore criminal justice activist and radio personality Christopher Ervin about criminal records and expungements exploring the process and exposing the link to poverty. With a criminal justice system that targets non-white people as seen in the glaring disparities in police stops and arrests, criminal records provide just another tool to practice economic racism. We will also discuss the possible real reasons as to why a rich and successful white male like Mark Wahlberg is seeking to have his violent hate crime convictions expunged by way of a pardon. Black's Law Dictionary defines "expungement of record" as the "Process by which record of criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed from the state or Federal repository."

In the news,

• Proxy Racism: Black Sheriff attacks NAACP and engages in Victim blaming
• American Sniper Chris Kyle's Murder: All About the Upcoming Trial
• McCain slams 'obsessive critics' of 'American Sniper' 
• Fidel Castro says do not trust the USA on Cuban policy

Letters To Trayvon & Klansville, USA review

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Today on the Live Drive @ 5 we will be joined by Lawanda Horton of the media campaign Letters To Trayvon. Letters To Trayvon is a social media campaign designed to flood the internet with positive images of Black men and boys, articles, quotes, poetry, and music that speaks to the challenges and triumphs of Black men and boys. Begins Thursday, February 26, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. (the time Trayvon was pronounced dead), via Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The campaign ends Saturday, February 28, 2015, at 7:30 p.m.

 After we speak with Sis. Horton, I want to delve into what I discovered about the PBS film documentary Klansville, USA. If you have not read my article on the film and how I feet about it then please do and feel free to call in and share your thoughts. Do you think this film purposely left out an important piece of the puzzle as it relates to Klan violence or lack thereof in North Carolina or am I just being a paranoid Black person seeing anti-black conspiracies in media?

 In the news,

• Racial gap in local, U.S. arrest rates: 'Staggering disparity'
• Thousands show up for gun, knife show in South Carolina

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