Minority school kids nationwide are racking up suspension rap sheets before they learn their primary colors at way higher rates than their white peers. And thanks to more cops in schools and zero tolerance for bad behavior, schools are fast-tracking kids to a perpetual cycle of school dropout and prison time. Correspondent Natalie McGill gets into the realities of the School to Prison Pipeline on Redacted Tonight.

Richard Eskow
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Richard Eskow is host and managing editor of The Zero Hour, a weekly radio program produced by We Act Radio. He was the senior writer and editor for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. Richard has written for a number of print and online publications, was a founding contributor to the Huffington Post, and is a longtime activist. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Campaign for America’s Future.

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