I’ve spent many days of my life pondering and living with the music of New Orleans: The Meters, Professor Longhair, Clifton Chenier, Dr. John, any no-name compilation I could find. When I was 14 years old, I finally made the pilgrimage south from Wisconsin. My mother and my college-age sister took me to the New […]
Lao Rubert
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Death penalty lawyers don’t meet standards
Gov. Mike Easley faces two clemency decisions early next month for inmates scheduled to be executed, yet virtually no steps have been taken to insure that they were represented by attorneys who, at the very least, were sober, in good standing with the Bar, free of criminal convictions, and possessed a modicum of experience. Those […]
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Fearsome power
Lao Rubert knows the power of words well chosen. As Executive Director of the Durham-based Carolina Justice Center, she’s spent years raising her voice in support of prison reform, economic justice, gun control and abolition of the death penalty. When the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty held its annual conference in the Triangle […]
