QUESTION: kidney failure

How does kidney failure lead to multiple organ phoblems? Also explain treatment.

What is the difference between palliative and radical treatment?

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ANSWER: Prison Population by Race and Gender

The older issues of Statistical Abstracts of the United States have most of the data you want. Here is the link to 1951-1994: www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab1951-1994.htm. Each report will have data for a couple of years earlier; e.g., the 1951 report has data for 1949. You'd need to scroll through each year to find the relevant data. For example, the 1951 report has chart on "Felony Prisoners by Color, Nativity, Age, and Sex". (nativity being whether they were born in the U.S. or not)

QUESTION: Prison Population by Race and Gender

What was the total prison population and prison population by race and gender from 1950 to 1975? I'm writing an article about the civil rights movement and rise of the prison industrial complex and want to compare yearly prison population increases with civil rights victories, so I want the population by year.

QUESTION: Trouble finding 'Online Skill-sharing Websites

Currently I'm working on a plan to create a website that helps to facilitate people meeting up and sharing their skills/knowledge for a community education group. Hopefully it will help people to meet up in their towns/cities and start workshops/classes in whatever the participants wanted to do.

Anti-Racism for Activists: a Bibliography

This is the beginning of a bibliography of anti-racist resources, particularly those that focus on dealing with racism and oppression in activist communities. Radical Reference members, please add to it, just keep your citations alphabetical and in the same style. Non Rad Reffies, e-mail me your suggestions.
 

Materials for People of Color

Articles | Books | Visual Media for White Allies


QUESTION: history/geography [history of road system in US]

Question: I would greatly appreciate help finding scholarly articles on the history of the American road system and (if possible) the effects of the road system on contemporary society in the United S

Open Source on the Line: Panel Discussion at the New School

Most of the text below from The New School and Rhizome.org , but I did embellish a little and add some links.

Live Event and Webcast

Open Source on the Line
Monday, December 4, 6:30 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center,
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: $8, free to students and alumni with ID and members of Rhizome.org.

With their vast popularity, "open-source" platforms on the Internet are becoming a contested terrain. As part of its series, "The Public Domain," The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in association with Rhizome.org presents a panel discussion moderated by Christine Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, featuring

War on Christmas

A friend just sent me this link to one of her and her partner's little holiday projects: https://marketspace.goodstorm.com/item/quimm/foot_soldier_in_the_war_on_christmas She's also working on a video with the same theme.

Goodbye Clamor


It's a sad day in the small and alternative press world. Clamor Magazine is no more.

What I liked best about Clamor is that it gave young writers and activists a chance to write for am established print publication, get paid a little, share their thoughts in the public commons, etc. It also got them and their opinions into ProQuest, a mainstream interdisciplinary database widely searched in academic libraries, via its inclusion in Alt-PressWatch.

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