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Justice for black youths, reparations in Atlanta’s conversations this summer

The nation’s conversation over the related issues of justice for black youths, and reparations, has its home this summer in Atlanta.

This week, two published authors have added their insights – one a historian whose first day at Emory University was Monday, the other a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who presented Monday at the Atlanta History Center. Meanwhile, remarks continue to resonate from last month’s congressional hearing on reparations – legislation endorsed by Georgia congressmembers John Lewis and Sanford Bishop.

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Restorative Justice: Continuing Georgia’s Juvenile Justice Revolution

By Alan Mackie and Elizabeth Beck In a nation with the highest incarceration rate in the world, it is heartening to observe Georgia bucking the trend. Much of the credit for this should be given to Gov. Nathan Deal who commissioned the Special Council for Criminal Justice Reform in Georgia shortly after taking office in […]

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