"Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation" reviews the history of legal measures to fight injustice, and lays a groundwork for our efforts to build a more perfect union today
In this symposium, Prof. James Forman, Jr. will reflect on the lessons of his book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, and discuss what is needed now to build a powerful movement to end mass incarceration.
The authors start the story in 1974, when Watergate, the defeat in Vietnam, racial conflict and economic convulsions began an unsettling new political era.
The demographics of the United States are rapidly changing. Yet most of America’s political leadership continues to fit a familiar mold: white, wealthy, Christian, and male. Join us in this discussion on the need for greater diversity in American government.
Yale Law School Professor Issa Kohler-Hausmann shows how the policing experiment has subjected hundreds of thousands of people to surveillance and asserts that the lower reaches of the criminal justice system operate as a form of social control.
