Howard Henderson
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Professor of Criminology @TexasSouthern & Founding Director of @CJResearchTSU | @BrookingsInst Senior Fellow | Royal Purple & Old Gold |
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Pastor Loran Livingston tore the church up with this one.
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My generation’s dance moves will go down in history as the greatest ever.....period🤓
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I don’t know what job
@PeteButtigieg
is positioning himself for but he deserves it. Have you ever seen anyone move so eloquently on their feet.
#AmyConeyBarrett
#SupremeCourtConfirmation
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Mr. President. Black men in America are in a "precarious" situation.
@realDonaldTrump
#Charolettesville
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A must ready by
@Kaepernick7
- “Only by dismantling unjust systems can we imagine a future that is safe, healthy, and truly free.”
#DefundThePolice
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Mrs. Mamie Till-Mobley tells the story of her son’s unthinkable murder.
#WomenOfTheMovement
@RocNation
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All marijuana arrest records, in states that have legalized it, should be automatically expungeed for no charge.
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A must read by
@BreeNewsome
- “Black Cops Don’t Make Policing Any Less Anti-Black” |
@Kaepernick7
#DefundThePolice
#refundcommunity
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Texas Senate Votes to Remove Required Lessons on Civil Rights
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In the end we will remember not the actions of the supporters of injustice but the silence of the American Society of Criminology (
@ASCRM41
) & the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (
@ACJS_National
). The silence of the experts is deafening.
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I can't but help be reminded of the similarities between the
@nfl2017draft
& the slave auction.
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“I’d like a hamburger and a coke, please.’ ‘Sir, we don’t serve negroes here.’ ‘Ma’am, I don’t eat negroes. I’d like a hamburger and a coke.” - Rev. Dr.
#JosephLowery
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Some of them are unable to control themselves policing a protest against police brutality.
#GeorgeFloyd
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My new example when asked to explain “Defunding the police”. No matter what you call it: Defund, Reform, Realign, Reorg, make sure it has independent oversight.
#DefundThePolice
#protest
#BlackLivesMatter
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@DrPhilGoff
Her classic “Mark of a Criminal Record” changed my entire paradigm as a graduate student. Simplistic, yet profoundly effective. Though we never met in person, her work spoke the language of my spirit. RIP Dr. Devah Pager
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When it rains it pours....I’m so humbled by the opportunity to serve as a
@BrookingsInst
senior fellow. May we continue to disorient injustice.
@TexasSouthern
@TxSouthern_AJ
@AdvancingOpps
@tmcf_hbcu
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@Phil_Lewis_
The Texas Crown Act allows continued discipline for long hair and hair color. This article will help better understand the continued criminalization of Blair hair.
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“…police and prosecutors routinely overcharge lower-level offenses as felonies to create bargaining power.” -
@ScottHech
My newest op-ed is out. In it, I crunched some numbers. We hear all the time from police & prosecutors about "felony arrests" to get harsher policies passed. But what actually happens to felony arrests?
Over 80% of them are dismissed. A thread w/ facts:
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There are certain 'must reads" for all students of crime and justice. This is one of them...
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Humbled to be named one of the 2023 Texas NAACP Presidential Award winners for Outstanding Academic Courage. 📚💫 Truth be told, we just refused to let our advocacy hide in the library! Thanks, Texas NAACP, for this honor—it's a reminder that courage often starts with curiosity.
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“The reality is that hurting communities cannot “nonprofit” their way out of poverty—services that don’t address market failures and structural racism will have limited impact.” -
@andreperryedu
@AnthonyMBarr
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They scaled back their emphasis on law enforcement & focused on life coaching & helping participants develop positive relationships w/ mentors who grew up in similar neighborhoods as they had. They are seeing a reduction in shootings.
@sjmichaels
#guns
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@AttorneyCrump
The Texas Crown Act has loopholes that allow for continued hair discrimination. Here is an article we wrote that will bring you up to speed and suggest proven solutions to the problem.
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Over the course of a week, eight sheriffs—all white men—chosen from the more than 3,000 in the country, attended a series of discussions, lectures, and fireside chats steeped in the far right-wing think tank’s heady intellectualism and radical ideology.
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Virtually all hospitalized Covid patients have one thing in common: They're unvaccinated via
@DrFrankWilson
#CovidVaccine
#COVID19
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After working with some of Houston’s violence interrupters, it became obvious to me that they need more resources. Check out this recent
@NBCNews
article by
@safiasameeali
where I had a chance to share my observations.
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@AttorneyCrump
This superintendent can’t point to any research that supports hair discrimination in his school district. If you’re interested, check out this review of the
#CrownAct
‘s exploited loopholes
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More than 4,000 black people were lynched in the South. Where are their monuments?
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Honored that we are co-leading vital research into structural racism and maternal health, thanks to a $2.6M
@NIH
grant. We'll work closely with
@bcmhouston
and
@UTHealthHouston
to gain insights and solutions to eliminate disparities.
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It’s very disappointing to find both
@ACJS_National
and
@ASCRM41
silent on the deadly assault of Tyre Nichols at the hands of the Memphis PD. A failure to take a stance undermines the very purpose of these organizations.
#JusticeForTyreNichols
#AccountabilityNow
#Memphis
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Library of Congress launches open-source hip-hop sampling tool
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The Cost of Police Misconduct Act would make all police misconduct allegations and settlements public.
#accountability
#policereform
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Great conversation with
@MelanieLawson13
about
@TexasSouthern
student engagement and their choice for president. I’ve never met a nicer person. Thanks Mrs. Lawson for the opportunity.
@TxSouthern_AJ
@TexasSouthern
@bjmlspa
@gerard_924
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Remember to test yourself every now and again to make sure that you still “got” it!!!
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Just watched
@rolandsmartin
set the record straight on the myth of
#blackonblackcrime
. Crime is not a racial issue, it's a socio-economic one. Let's focus on addressing systemic issues like poverty, inequality, and lack of opportunities.
#EndTheMyth
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“In 1848, Louisiana passed a law declaring that all children born in the penitentiary to African Americans serving life sentences would become property of the state.”
In Louisiana, black women were put in cells with male prisoners and some became pregnant.
All children born in the penitentiary to blacks were property of the state.
At 10 years, they would be auctioned off. The proceeds were used to fund schools for white children.
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@Grits4Breakfast
@jduffyrice
My mama...”Boy get in there, rub that Vic Salve on the bottom of your feet then put them socks on. Rub it on your chest, back & at the entry to your nostrils. Oh, & hit a little bit behind them big ears. Sleep in them Long John’s & sweat it out. You’ll be aight in the morning. “
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Wrongly-convicted man who spent 5 years on death row graduates from Texas college.
#ryanmatthews
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This is what it looks like when everyone is included and can relate. Just before the adults mess us up. Please check out the little boy to the left in the gray jogging suit. He’s getting it.
#OldTownRoad
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We’ve found that universities ‘lump’ tenure and non-tenure track faculty together for their diversity count. This is truly an elephant in the academy.
#BlackintheIvory
“Black professors push a major university to diversify and confront racism”
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“Lighter-skinned players were more likely to be described for their performance and mental abilities. Darker-skinned players were more likely to be described for their physical characteristics.”
@SociologistRay
@DrKenyattaCavil
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When a senior Congresswoman needs you to testify in a congressional hearing on the impact of federal drug policies, you gather your notes and be ready. What good is our research if we aren’t willing to help them make sound decisions?
@JacksonLeeTX18
#policy
#WarOnDrugs
#impact
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Every criminologist has a duty to keep decision-makers informed of the facts. Undocumented immigrants commit less crime than native-born citizens.
@realDonaldTrump
@DrFrankWilson
@HoustonChron
@TexasTribune
@AdvancingOpps
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Imagine how many lives would have been saved had we tracked all police complaints with an objective, third party database, much the same way we do arrest and victimization. Let’s call it B.A.D (the Bad Actors Database)
#DerekChauvin
#GeorgeFloyd
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Did
@LindseyGrahamSC
just ask why the
#Capital
Police were not prepared for the domestic terrorist like they were for
#BlackLivesMatter
?
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@Phil_Lewis_
4.5M women, 20 victims a minute. Love shouldn't be a battlefield.
#DomesticViolenceAwareness
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I had the opportunity to discuss the need for police reform efforts to address structural and cultural problems on
@SpectrumNews1TX
| |
#GeorgeFloydMattered
#DerekChauvinVerdict
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Pro-accountability is not anti-police. The time for reforms is now.
#derekchauvin
#georgefloyd
#dauntewright
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This is one of the best
#defundpolice
articulations. Within the defund rhetoric are the necessary solutions. “A public safety apparatus that will protect and serve EVERYONE.”
@BarackObama
@WhipClyburn
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Guess who defended his dissertation today? Dr. Devonte White. I remember when he pulled up from Florida in the August Texas heat.
@TexasSouthern
@bjmlspa
@tmcf_hbcu
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I forgot all about this article where we examined policing as the front line of a race- and class-stratified social order.
#GeorgeFloyd
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“Majority of prisoners will be released. 95% will return to society. Of those, about 40% will return to prison through committing new crimes or breaking parole. Those who take educational programs while in prison reduce their odds of returning to prison by 43%.”
Inmate-Scholars Do So Well on Pell Grants That U.S. May Add More - Bloomberg GOV
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Today the
@bjmlspa
celebrated
#juneteenth2022
@TexasSouthern
. It was a cause for celebration and recalibration. I had to pull out my tribal wear!!
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There's a database whose mission is to stop problematic police officers from hopping between departments. But many agencies don't know it exists.
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Finished our family 30-day workout competition while I was at home in Tennessee. This is my mama in the front and my sista’ bringing up the rear.
#murfreesboro
#Tennessee
#PattersonCommunityCenter
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The worst part about all of this is that y’all needed video to believe what we have been saying for decades, what data had demonstrated and what y’all have seen before in HD. I wonder where we’d be, had there not been a pandemic and record levels of unemployment.
#GeorgeFloyd
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We are excited and grateful for Houston Endowment’s $1.5 million gift to advance racial equity and justice. Thank you for sharing our vision!
@HoustonEndowmnt
|
@TexasSouthern
@bjmlspa
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Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green, an assistant professor at Morehouse School of Medicine in the Physiology Department, has reportedly become the first person to successfully cure cancer in mice using laser-activated nanoparticles.
#CancerResearch
#HBCU
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We can’t forget that jurors are 3X more likely to recommend a death sentence for a Black defendant than for White defendants in similar cases. In Louisiana, the odds of a death sentence were 97% higher when victim was White than when Black.
#deathpenalty
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When you're caught being racist all your previous police activity should be investigated.
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Time to create a
#TwitterQues
List. Can y’all tag all that you know on
#Twitter
, to this thread? Let’s see how many we can find.
@cyclingbruhs
@phintias2_chris
@QueSwagger
@askmrvinnie
@jackmonell
@jjsampsoniii
@jackson
@chief_daj
@RickeySmiley
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Come on y’all. You didn’t need to spray this Vietnam combat medic in the face. He posed no threat. As
#GeorgeOrwell
penned in
#AnimalFarm
, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”.
#PortlandStrong
#Portland
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I just looked up and saw
@SociologistRay
on my tv. I had to take a seat. He laid out several viable solutions for
#policereform
. Especially restructuring police-civilian payouts and a need to examine the psychological state of many of these high-risk officers.
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@CNN
why is it relevant that we know
#SimoneBiles
‘ brother is arrested for a triple murder? She has a right to be judged by the content of her own character.
#responsiblemedia
#CriminalJusticeReform
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How can it be legally justified to shoot an unarmed person in their own home? Then turn around & none of the charges have anything to do w/
#BreonnaTaylor
. The theory of death has received more constitutional protection than the life of a Black woman.
#BreonnaTaylorWasMurdered
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“Two weeks after she graduated from Tennessee State University with a degree in criminal justice and psychology, her parents dropped her off at prison.”
@KeedaHaynes
#CJReform
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“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” - James Baldwin |
#ShaunLucas
|
#JonathanPrice
#PoliceBrutality
#BlackLivesMatter
|
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We are proud to be a collaborator on the new $1M
@GunResearch
grant to identify the root causes of young Black male gun possession.
@tmcf_hbcu
@CoppinStateUniv
@JacksonStateU
@DelStateUniv
|
@TexasSouthern
@defendernetwork
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At least now you see it. Better yet, you know, we know, you see it. We’re in this together!
#ThisIsAmerica
#DonaldTrump
#ProudBoys
#CapitolBuilding
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@michaelharriot
School lunch programs play a crucial role in supporting the physical, academic, and social well-being of students. They ensure that all students have access to nutritious meals, which is foundational for learning and development, while also providing economic relief to families…
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My Great-Aunt turned 95 today. Just called to tell her Happy Birthday. She told me to “go and get my homework done”. I said, “yes ma’am. I’m on it”.
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Why is anyone still in prison for possession or distribution of marijuana?
#Legalize
#decriminalize
Federal prosecutors argued that an 80-year-old serving a life sentence for marijuana offenses shouldn't be released because COVID-19 is just "one more way to perish in prison"
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Put everything to the side and read this. Immediately. Why “Crime” Isn’t the Question and Police Aren’t the Answer.
@equalityAlec
#PoliceReform
#culturalyresponsivesolutions
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@Blackmillions_
We need a national database of the discrimination settlements so that you can check your offer against the norm before you cash out. My God😳
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Find your Black colleagues. Have an off-the-record conversation about their experiences in your department, college, school or university. Work w/ them to remove the structural & cultural barriers to Black excellence.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackintheIvory
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Just wanted you all to know, I’m official. Received my 2nd dose yesterday. Hopefully this will motivate others to get vaccinated.
#COVID19
#COVID19Vaccine
#Covid_19
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Today is the 154th anniversary of the 14th Amendment’s ratification. July 9, 1868
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“Former prosecutors outnumber former defense lawyers by a ratio of 4‐ to‐ 1, with those representing government in criminal or civil proceedings outnumbering those litigating against the government by a ratio of 7‐ to‐ 1.”
@BPDA_justice
via
@msnbc
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A new study shows that extreme heat is associated with suicidality among incarcerated men, a finding that may have implications for legal interventions and advocacy to reduce heat-induced morbidity and mortality in prisons.
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They used to say, “Howard, they’re too radical”. I’d say, “radical is what we need”. Look at them now. Out front, shaping the narrative. Where the naysayers, still lifting up Status Quo. Complacency can only be seen when you take your eyes off the prize.
#BlackLivesMatter
I'm happy to be joined by
@mbmitchelljr
,
@KMiddlemass
@DrJWilliams4
,
@DrBWillingham
, and Odell Lashley for a much-needed critical conversation on reentry. This powerful panel goes down on Wednesday, November, 11 at 6:30 PM EST. Registration link is in the flyer.
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This has been the ELEPHANT in the room and we are all guilty for not calling it out. 🤗
#BlackGirlMagic
@JoeBiden
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“The revolution is being televised. The world is watching. Now it’s time to garner concrete commitments and lay out 2-3 policies that remove the outdated protections of qualified immunity for agents of the state.”
#GeorgeFlyod
#AhmaudArbery
#BreonnaTaylor
#BlackLivesMatter
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