Past Events

Van Jones' latest docu-series for CNN, The Redemption Project with Van Jones, provides a rare glimpse into the restorative justice process, connecting victims of a life-altering crime (or their surviving family members) with their offender in the hope of finding answers.

A distinguished panel of experts will discuss the mass movement of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North at the turn of the 20th century, and the ways in which it spurred seismic cultural, economic, and political changes that continue to reverberate today. Moderated by journalist and author Mark Whitaker, author of “Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Black Renaissance.” This event is part of Carnegie Hall’s Migrations: The Making of America festival.

Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) will discuss bipartisanship, racial justice, and advancing economic opportunity for all Americans. Scott, the GOP’s only African-America senator, will be interviewed by Brennan Center Fellow Theodore R. Johnson.

For legal expert Rachel Barkow, America’s criminal justice policy reflects irrational fears promoted by politicians in order to win elections. In her newest book, Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration, Barkow looks at the extensive societal damage wrought by such a policy – and argues for an institutional shift toward data and expertise, with prescriptions rooted in a thorough and refreshingly ideology-free cost–benefit analysis of how to cut mass incarceration while maintaining public safety.