Hands Up Don't Shoot: Systemic Racism in the Criminal "Justice" System
When: Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 7:30
pm
Where: Northeastern University School of
Law • 65 Forsyth St • Dockser Hall, Room 240 • Boston
SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE CRIMINAL
“JUSTICE” SYSTEM
AND HOW TO COMBAT IT
 DR. KHALILAH BROWN DEAN is Associate
Professor of Political Science at Quinnipiac University. Her research focuses
on the political dynamics of the American criminal justice system and the issue
of voter rights. She has a book coming out titled “Once Convicted, Forever
Doomed: Race Punishment, and Governance.” |
 CARLTON WILLIAMS, ESQ is a staff attorney for the
ACLU of Massachusetts since 2013. He is a member of the National Lawyers GHuild
and has served on its Massachusetts Board. A longtime resident of Roxbury, he
has been an activist and organizer on issues of war, immigrants' rights, LGBT
rights, racial justice and Palestinian self-determination. He is a member of the
recently formed Member Boston Coalition for Police
Accountability. |
PANELIST FROM BLACK LIVES MATTER
MOVEMENT
Co-Sponsored by the Northeastern and Suffolk Law
School chapters of the
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United for
Justice with Peace is a coalition of peace and justice organizations and
community peace groups in the Greater Boston region. The UJP Coalition, formed
after September 11th, seeks global peace through social and economic
justice.
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