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From Selma to Ferguson, criminal justice reform.

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a daily look at the issues Americans come about most.

50 years ago in Selma, Alabama, it was white sheriff's deputies and soldiers

brutally attacking civil rights marchers. Today, in Ferguson, in other cities, it's white sheriff's deputies and soldiers brutally attacking civil rights marchers.

Today in Ferguson and other cities, it's systemic police abuse of black people and the use of fines

and fees to finance unequal judicial systems. Now there's a movement for reform on the local and federal

levels from police stops to excessive prison sentences to billionaires. Progressive

George Soros and right-winger Charles Koch have joined forces against over-criminalization.

Today's talking point, officials in Florida can't use the term climate change. First, here's the

news.

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Obama says we don't need Ferguson to know there is still systemic abuse of black citizens by many local police departments and judicial systems.

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