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Clarke, Brian Barrow-Murray, Barbara Deare, Beth

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In this clip, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz comments on the inability for Black Americans to receive fair treatment in the United States judicial system. Overall, the program is the first in a two-part series discussing the harsh sentencing of African Americans in the Massachusetts court system using the Paplo case, the Hakim Jamal case, and the Willie Saunders/Brighton rape case as studies in injustice. Host Barbara Barrow-Murray speaks with individuals involved with the cases, including Frank Neisser (Secretary to the Citywide Coalition for Justice and Equality), Mary Harris (mother of Edward Soares, one of the defendants in the Paplo case and member of Family and Friends of Prisoners and the Citywide Coalition for Justice and Equality ), Larry Gaines (Chairman of the Citywide Coalition for Justice and Equality), Professor Alan Dershowitz (with Harvard Law School), Saundra Carney (Coordinator for Brown, Johnson, Clinkscales Support Committee), and Undrey Sanders (brother of Willie Sanders, who was arrested for the rapes in Brighton, and representative for the Willie Sanders Defense Committee). Program includes interview footage with Dinizula Kamau (Efrid Brown, Jr.) and Abdullah Khalil Sabree (both convicted in the Hakim Jamal case) from Say Brother's visit to the Walpole correctional facility and viewer calls related to the cases. Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray. Directed by Brian Clarke.
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Hill, RebeccaRivera, GeorgePugliesi, JoeMoore, RobertFairweather, BillMcKenna, JimBrennan, SusanPlausse, JohnLane, FrankDavidson, WendyMahard, FranSmith, KathyGray, RandolphLewis, WebsterFong, DianaMackles, GeneWong, EvelynNorton, Chas
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Keywords

  1. African American Prisoners
  2. African Americans
  3. Attitudes
  4. Carney, Saundra
  5. Citywide Coalition For Justice And Equality
  6. Civil Rights
  7. Dershowitz, Alan M
  8. Discrimination
  9. Discrimination In Criminal Justice Administration
  10. Gaines, Larry
  11. Harris, Mary
  12. Jamal, Hakim A. 1931
  13. Kamau, Dinizulu (Efrid Brown, Jr.)
  14. Massachusetts
  15. Neisser, Frank
  16. Sabree, Abdullah Khalil (William Johnson)
  17. Sanders, Undrey
  18. Segregation
  19. Willie Sanders Defense Committee

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