Detention or Detox: Deconstructing America’s New Face of Heroin

Austin, Indiana, in many ways, is remarkably unremarkable. A small, mostly white, non-Hispanic population nestled in the center of the state, Austin may be your quintessential small-midwestern town. Family-owned ranches interspersed with mobile homes and yard signs that read, “”No Trespassing,” “Private Property,” “Keep Out.” A lackluster main street and struggling small businesses typify the […]

The Crack in Voting Equality

“Freeway” Rick Ross, the first distributor of crack cocaine in the US “We never called it crack, that was what the government named it,” says “Freeway” Rick Ross, the man largely credited with the introduction of crack cocaine to the US, “I think that they gave it the name crack to sensationalize the danger of […]