[Peace] Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, to speak Feb 20 / 6pm / Illini Union rooms B and C

[Niloofar Shambayati]

Just a quick note that the doors open at 6:00 PM but the lecture starts at
6:40.  I'm attaching a flyer that cites various parts of this event.

Niloofar

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:

> [Reminder] People keep asking me to remind them about this event, so
> here it is....
> Feb 20- Michelle Alexander speaks at Illini Union 6-9 p.m.
>
> February 20, 2013
> Lecture: Professor Michelle Alexander, JD
> Author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of
> Colorblindness"
> 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
> Illini Rooms B & C / Illini Union / 1401 W. Green St., Urbana, Illinois
> This is part of the events of Inclusive Illinois' Emancipation
> Proclamation Sesquicentennial. To see the list of sponsors, please
> see: http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/MLK/sponsors.html
> "With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of
> the new Jim Crow.”
> "Michelle Alexander’s book offers a timely and original framework for
> understanding mass incarceration, its roots to Jim Crow, our modern
> caste system, and what must be done to eliminate it."
> "More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or
> parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began."
>
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Niloofar
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