December 12, 2014
Sidney's Picks: Black Lives Matter
The Best of the Week’s News
- We missed this when it came out, but it’s a must read: Young black men are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than their white counterparts.
- WalMart’s tomato supplier kept Mexican workers in de facto slavery.
- The Supreme Court rules that Amazon workers don’t have to be paid for time in security screening lines.
- ”Rectal feeding” is a CIA euphemism for rape.
- See photos from Geoffrey Hiller’s new book, “Daybreak in Myanmar,” a work 27 years in the making.
[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]