50 Years:The Kerner Commission, Mass Incarceration & College-in-Prison (Virtual)
Bard Prison Initiative, October 27, 2021 at 12pm EST: 50 Years: The Kerner Commission, Mass Incarceration & College-in-Prison (Virtual)
“Please join us for a lunchtime Zoom conversation on October 27th at 12pm EST. 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 join 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. 50 years later, we are on the brink of what could be a new era, but we have also been here before. Where do go from here?”
Register: https://bpi-bard-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5GhI7-9wTtCZzr88fip2Zw
Additional reading:
The New York Times, June 23, 2020: The 1968 Kerner Commission Report Still Echoes Across America
Pen America: Vivian D. Nixon
The New York Times, May 12, 2021: Unearthing the Roots of Black Rebellion
In “America on Fire,” the historian Elizabeth Hinton offers a sweeping reconsideration of the racial unrest that shook American cities in the 1960s and 70s.
