In other essays, I discuss the alarming increase in the rate of incarceration. Bryan Stevenson and James Farmer, Jr. have written excellent books dealing, among other things, with that critical issue.  I have suggested that the increase in the rate of incarceration...

Four hundred years of slavery and segregation created a cultural system in our black communities. That system did not disappear just because the Civil Rights Movement adjusted the legal system in an attempt to treat all persons equally. The cultural system that had...

In several essays, I discuss problems with the criminal justice system and incarceration. Our exploration of problems concerning the corrections system suggested that 400 years of slavery and segregation created a Black cultural system that understandably put distance...

In several essays on this website, I deal with issues of law and race from a different and unique point of view. In the background of all of the articles is consideration of differing cultural systems. I note repeatedly that the 400 years of slavery and segregation...

Several of the essays on this website are devoted to concerns about the impact of cultural differences on the effectiveness of law. Those essays recognize that the legal system as it existed, particularly in the South, was a factor in our creating different cultural...