By Olayemi Olurin ·Updated March 11, 2024
Thirty years ago, spearheaded by now-president and then Senator Joe Biden, Congress passed the 1994 Crime Bill—a law that would become infamous for its catastrophic role in the mass incarceration of many Black people.
Today, the law is so widely criticized amongst progressives and Black people as an obvious indicator of anti-Blackness that Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and any politician considered to have supported the