Shani O. Hilton

Crossposted from PostBourgie. I’ve a piece in the June issue of The American Prospect on this summer’s Lilith Fair revival: In 1998 and 1999, the festival featured a slightly more diverse lineup both racially and musically. But as the decade came to a close, there was little room in the mainstream for the kind of [...]

M. Leblanc, aka Silvana Naguib, aka one of my favorite feminist bloggers and legal minds (and occasional Attackerman contributor), writes in the comments of my post yesterday: You’re missing the point of how Miranda is supposed to work. If you remain silent, they are supposed to actually stop questioning you, not just keep asking questions [...]

From the Washington Post: The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that suspects must explicitly tell police they want to be silent to invoke Miranda protections during criminal interrogations, a decision one dissenting justice said turns defendants’ rights “upside down.” A right to remain silent and a right to a lawyer are the first of the Miranda [...]

Monica Potts notes that an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, introduced by Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) will repeal a ban on abortions for servicewomen. The ban, re-instituted by Congress in 1995 (after Clinton rolled it back in 1993), prevents a servicewoman from obtaining an abortion on base, even if she uses her own [...]

Over at the Chronicle of Higher Education blog, a newly completed, decades-long study shows that children who grew up in a home with 500 or more books stay in school three years longer than kids whose parents only had a few books, and that children whose parents have lots of books are 20 percent more [...]