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The Man, The Myth: John Legend

John Legend and Jorge Ramos talk politics and criminal justice reform in Los Angeles. Later, Legend gives us a backstage look at his latest tour.

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A prisoner behind bars and thick plastic looks over at a corrections officer in an enhanced supervision housing unit on Rikers Island in New York, Thursday, March 12, 2015. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has unveiled a comprehensive plan to curb jail violence after a visit to the problem-plagued Rikers Island jail complex. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Politics

New York City Might Be Closing One of the Most Infamous, Violent Jails in the Nation

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2017 file photo, a protester holds a sign that reads "ICE Hands Off DACA Families Free Daniel," during a demonstration in front of the federal courthouse in Seattle. On Friday, March 24 2017, a federal judge upheld a decision not to release Daniel Ramirez Medina, a Mexican man who was arrested near Seattle, despite his participation in a program designed to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children, saying Ramirez should challenge his detention in immigration court. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)

Immigration

El primer joven indocumentado con DACA que fue detenido por fin fue liberado

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, to discuss the operational implementation of the president's executive orders. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Immigration

ICE seguirá con las detenciones en las cortes

James Harris Jackson appears in criminal court during his arraignment, Thursday, March 23, 2017, in New York. Jackson, accused of randomly killing Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old black man on the streets of New York by stabbing him with a sword, was charged Thursday with murder as a hate crime. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)

racism

The white supremacist New York murder suspect's family history puts him even more to shame

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Immigration

Una redada de ICE en Chicago dejó a un hombre con una herida de bala

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Immigration

ICE arrestó a 26 inmigrantes indocumentados cuando iban a cumplir horas de servicio comunitario

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Criminal Justice

A mother filmed the very invasive TSA pat-down of her teenage son

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Politics

Watch the White House's appalling response to the white supremacist murder in New York

In this photo made Thursday, March 6, 2015, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex looking for a specific undocumented immigrant convicted of a felony during an early morning operation in Dallas. The Department of Homeland Security has been conducting a nationwide roundup of undocumented immigrants convicted of felonies in order to deport them to their country of origin. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Immigration

ICE rounds up 26 parolees showing up for court-ordered community service

FILE - In this June 13, 2012, file photo, police officers and supporters clap as Officer Richard Haste, center, exits the courthouse after posting bail in New York. Haste pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges in the shooting death of unarmed, black teenager Ramarley Graham. Haste was expected to offer his first public account of the slaying at his department disciplinary trial on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Haste initially faced a criminal manslaughter charge in the 2012 death of Graham, but the case was ultimately dismissed. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Police

NYPD cop who shot and killed unarmed black teen allowed to quit to avoid discipline

Chicago police officers line up outside the District 1 central headquarters at 17th and State streets, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, during a protest for 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was fatally shot and killed in October 2014 in Chicago. Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the killing. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Criminal Justice

Investigation reveals yet another way Chicago police officers are getting away with misconduct

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2014 frame from dash-cam video provided by the Chicago Police Department, Laquan McDonald, right, walks down the street moments before being fatally shot by CPD officer Jason Van Dyke sixteen times in Chicago. This week marks the one-year anniversary of the release of the video. (Chicago Police Department via AP File)

Civil Rights

How new charges against the Chicago cop who killed Laquan McDonald could help him beat a murder rap

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 27, 2008 file photo, the gurney used to restrain condemned prisoners during the lethal injection process is shown in the Texas death house in Huntsville, Texas. Texas and other states that lead America in executions are sentencing many fewer inmates to death, a trend that slowly is reducing the death row population in the United States, a report from an anti-capital punishment group says. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

Criminal Justice

How Arkansas is recruiting Rotary Club volunteers to watch death row inmates die

FILE - In a June 20, 2014, file photo, the Rikers Island jail complex stands in New York with the Manhattan skyline in the background. Two correction officers at New York’s Rikers Island have been assaulted by two inmates. It happened Tuesday evening, Oct. 4, 2016, at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center inside the jail complex. Both officers were taken to a hospital, where they were treated and released. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Civil Rights

More Rikers brutality cases come to light as opponents try to shutter 'dysfunctional' jail

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Immigration

ICE actualizó sus lineamientos para facilitar la detención de más inmigrantes

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Criminal Justice

De albañil a buscador de cadáveres: el padre que encontró la mayor fosa clandestina de México

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Immigration

Una nueva ley en California busca construir 'un muro' para proteger a los inmigrantes

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Immigration

How the California Values Act would build a 'big, beautiful wall' between ICE and police

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racism

A sickening white supremacist murder just allegedly happened in New York City

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Immigration

Entrenaba con su papá para el Maratón de Los Ángeles hasta que ICE lo arrestó.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers knock on the door during a pre-dawn raid in Santa Ana, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007. The week-long series of raids targeting five counties in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area resulted in the arrest of 338 illegal immigrants at their homes, while another 423 were taken into ICE custody at county jails, said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)

Politics

Las políticas migratorias de Trump están silenciando a las víctimas de violencia doméstica

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Immigration

La mayoría de las solicitudes de detención de ICE son para latinos

In this photo made Thursday, March 6, 2015, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex looking for a specific undocumented immigrant convicted of a felony during an early morning operation in Dallas. The Department of Homeland Security has been conducting a nationwide roundup of undocumented immigrants convicted of felonies in order to deport them to their country of origin. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Politics

Un juez acusa a ICE de vengarse de las políticas santuario

A Customs and Border Protection officer watches as a car moves through a large scanning device during a secondary inspection at the San Ysidro port of entry Thursday, June 27, 2013, in San Diego. The smuggling of methamphetamine at land border crossings has jumped in recent years but especially at San Diegos San Ysidro port of entry, which accounted for more than 40 percent of seizures in fiscal year 2012. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Immigration

U.S. pays $1 million to family of late Mexican teen made to chug liquid meth by border agents

Adan Garcia, 20, left, from San Luis-Santa Barbara, Honduras is interviewed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer after a raid in Santa Ana, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007. The week-long series of raids targeting five counties in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area resulted in the arrest of 338 illegal immigrants at their homes, while another 423 were taken into ICE custody at county jails, said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)

Politics

ICE publica su primer listado de los crímenes cometidos por inmigrantes indocumentados

In this photo made Thursday, March 6, 2015, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex looking for a specific undocumented immigrant convicted of a felony during an early morning operation in Dallas. The Department of Homeland Security has been conducting a nationwide roundup of undocumented immigrants convicted of felonies in order to deport them to their country of origin. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Politics

Judge says an ICE raid in Austin was pure revenge for its sanctuary city policy

Adan Garcia, 20, left, from San Luis-Santa Barbara, Honduras is interviewed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer after a raid in Santa Ana, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007. The week-long series of raids targeting five counties in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area resulted in the arrest of 338 illegal immigrants at their homes, while another 423 were taken into ICE custody at county jails, said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)

Politics

The fear-mongering ICE report about sanctuary cities that Trump promised is here

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Politics

Conoce a los 'Bad Hombres' de Trump

A prisoner works on the lawn at the Dade Correctional Institution on Thursday, July 10, 2014, in Florida City, Fla. Civil rights groups are calling for a federal investigation into the death of mentally ill prisoner Darren Rainey, who was locked in a shower stall at the Dade Correctional Institution as a form of punishment in June 2012. He died after he was left unattended for two hours with scalding hot water running. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Criminal Justice

Four prison guards who may have boiled an inmate alive won't be charged with a crime

A coalition of over 50 LGBTQ rights organizations and New York Elected Officials held an emergency rally to oppose Trump attack on Trans Students at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City, on February 23, 2017; participating trans speakers and Government Officials made it clear that they will fight to keep protections for trans and gender non-conforming people and students in the aftermath of the Trump-Pence Administration rescinding important protections for transgender students in schools. (Photo by Erik McGregor) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***(Sipa via AP Images)

Criminal Justice

NY man who brutally beat 2 transgender women on St. Patrick’s Day charged with hate crime

Protesters rally in front of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. President Donald Trump's immigration order sowed more chaos and outrage across the country Sunday, with travelers detained at airports, panicked families searching for relatives and protesters registering opposition to the sweeping measure that was blocked by several federal courts. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Immigration

This retired North Carolina police chief is furious after being detained at JFK because of his name

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racism

This man allegedly broke into an Arizona mosque and destroyed dozens of Qur'ans

U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the Northern District of Illinois speaks during a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, in Chicago. The U.S. Justice Department issued a scathing report on civil rights abuses by Chicago's police department over the years. The report released Friday alleges that institutional Chicago Police Department problems have led to serious civil rights violations, including racial bias and a tendency to use excessive force. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Crime

Chicago's outgoing U.S. attorney wrote a fiery last missive condemning the city's police

FILE- In this March 3, 2015 photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee in an apartment building, in the Bronx borough of New York, during a series of early-morning raids. New York City leaders are trying to strike a balance between purging dangerous criminals and protecting some of its roughly 500,000 undocumented immigrants. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Politics

Una legisladora de Nueva York quiere equipar a los agentes de ICE con cámaras corporales

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racism

A building named for a Charleston shooting victim was just hit with a racist attack

FILE- In this March 3, 2015 photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee in an apartment building, in the Bronx borough of New York, during a series of early-morning raids. New York City leaders are trying to strike a balance between purging dangerous criminals and protecting some of its roughly 500,000 undocumented immigrants. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Politics

This Democratic lawmaker wants to make sure everything ICE does is caught on camera

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Crime

'A high-tech slave auction': Van Jones on the harsh reality of our prison system

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Police

This disturbing video shows a CA police officer beating a suspect and pulling a gun on witnesses

Sharon Cowan chants as she marches on the way to a candle light vigil on the spot where Mike Brown was killed on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, in Ferguson, Mo. The demonstration marked two years since the unarmed black 18-year-old's fatal shooting by a white police officer. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Police

Newly released surveillance video casts doubt on Ferguson police narrative of Michael Brown’s death

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