riot - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com The Nation's Oldest Black Collegiate Newspaper Wed, 13 Oct 2021 20:40:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-NewHilltopLogo-32x32.jpg riot - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com 32 32 248273635 Justice for J6 Rally Falls Short of Expectations https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2021/09/20/justice-for-j6-rally-falls-short-of-expectations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=justice-for-j6-rally-falls-short-of-expectations Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:12:36 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=13857 A strong police presence was met with a small, peaceful crowd in the District of Columbia’s Union Square to protest the imprisonment of Jan. 6 rioters on Saturday.

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]]> 13857 COLUMN: Vaughn Rebellion and the Case Against Prisons https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2017/02/11/column-vaughn-rebellion-and-the-case-against-prisons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=column-vaughn-rebellion-and-the-case-against-prisons Sat, 11 Feb 2017 22:32:03 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=8981 By Juan McFarland, Contributing Writer Posted 5:30 PM EST, Sat., Feb. 11, 2017 On Feb. 1, prisoners at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware organized an uprising, leaving one correctional officer dead and another vaguely injured. It was the 152nd anniversary of the 13th Amendment, which legalizes slavery as a punishment for crime. […]

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