The Past, Present, and Future of Policing and Mass Incarceration in America
Thursday, September 10, 4:00 PM, Smith-Buonano 106
Reception to follow
Please join us to extend the conversation about Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow with a panel of activists and scholars with deep experience in civil and human rights law, the politics of mass incarceration, and contemporary efforts, on and off campus, to address the intersection of policing, prisons, and race.
Flint Taylor, a 1968 graduate of Brown University, and a founding partner of the People’s Law Office in Chicago, which has been dedicated to litigating civil rights, police violence, wrongful conviction and death penalty cases for more than forty five years. Among the landmark cases that Taylor has litigated are the Fred Hampton Black Panther police assassination case; the Greensboro, North Carolina case against the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis; and the Ford Heights Four case in which four innocent men received a record $36 million settlement for their wrongful conviction and imprisonment. Additionally, for the past 30 years, Taylor has litigated a series of criminal and civil cases arising from the torture of African-American men by Chicago police officials, culminating recently with the conviction of the ringleader of the torture ring and reparations for more than 50 survivors of police torture
Elizabeth Hinton, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University, and author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2016)
Cherise Morris, Brown ’16, Students Against the Prison-Industrial Complex, Space in Prison for the Arts and Creative Expression, Co-Editor-in-Chief bluestockings magazine, Advisory Committee and Facilitator at Direct Action for Rights and Equality Black Studies Program
Tricia Rose (moderator), Professor of Africana Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Sponsored by: Dean of the College, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, and the Departments of Africana Studies, American Studies, and History