https://hunewsservice.com Your Neighborhood. Your Nation. Your News! Mon, 03 Mar 2025 04:23:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hunewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-407787_352128264798897_1461219382_n-1-32x32.jpg https://hunewsservice.com 32 32 https://hunewsservice.com/news/ex-con-goes-from-years-in-prison-to-youtube/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 21:16:28 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/ex-con-goes-from-years-in-prison-to-youtube/ The Clemency Project Courtesy Photo:  Hundreds of African-American men and women across the nation are trying to put their lives back together after being released under President Barack Obama's Clemency Project.   President Barack Obama paroled many of the men and women who were sentenced to overly harsh federal prison terms during the “War on Drugs.” Black people were arrested, convicted and sentenced at an astounding rate during that period and to inordinately harsh terms under new ‘mandatory” minimum sentences passed by Congress and states.  This is the one of three stories looking at the lives of three of the]]>