A Clarion Call to Action: Criminal Justice Reform for African Americans Needed Now
Dr. Deborah S. LeBlanc
Abstract
This paper sought to reaffirm the urgent need for criminal justice reform in sentencing practices in the United States of America. According responses of thirty participants in this paper and numerous studies and findings, “a clarion call to action in criminal justice reform for African Americans needed now” (CFES, Inc). African Americans have suffered the greatest atrocities than any other people on earth; and yet they are hopeful in freedom and democracy. The social unrest of 2020 following the death of George Floyd on May 28, 2020 by a racist police officer in Minnesota; along with countless other unjust killings and sentencing of Africans American attest to the need for a clarion call to justice in America. More needs to be known today’s public views on racial inequalities and social injustices and the need to eradicate system racism in the United States against African Americans. Now is the time for action. African Americans are hopeful that with the newly elected Biden/Harris Presidential team in the White House on January 20, 2021, that the ‘soul of America’ may truly able to begin the healing process for all people, especially those who have suffered so much.