50 Years: The Kerner Commission, Mass Incarceration & College-in-Prison
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Online Event
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
12 pm New York l 6 pm Vienna12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
OSUN partner institution the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) welcomes OSUN members to attend a public discussion with author and advocate Reverend Vivian Nixon; MacArthur Fellow, founder of Freedom Reads, and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts Esq; and BPI founder and executive director Max Kenner.
The three will participate in a conversation moderated by historian Dr. Elizabeth Hinton about the pivotal era in racial justice and punitive politics following the 1968 Kerner Commission report—the making of mass incarceration, the rise, fall, and rise again of college-in-prison, and the failures of liberal reform.
More than 50 years later, we are on the brink of what could be a new era, but we have also been here before. Where do we go from here?
With opening remarks from Eisenhower Foundation president, Alan Curtis.
Find out more and register here.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Online Event