Friday, April 03, 2015

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 DeanDR. 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 WilliamsCARLTON 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
National Lawyers Guild and the United for Justice with Peace coalition. 

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