The Social Justice Institute will host James Forman Jr., a former public defender and author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime & Punishment in Black America, for a talk Thursday, Sept. 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center’s Senior Classroom.
Forman will speak about his book, which was the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
Locking Up Our Own: Crime & Punishment in Black America explores mass incarceration, its disproportionate impact on people of color, and why the war on crime that began in the 1970s has been supported by many African-American leaders in the nation’s urban centers.
This event is free and open to the community. RSVP to socialjustice@case.edu.