Wed 9/29 @ 6:30PM
Incarceration and racism are huge problems, especially when we, as a society, can’t even talk about the problem. On Wed 9/29, the ACLU and Karamu House will present selected readings from banned and challenged works providing social commentary on incarceration. Let’s break the silence. Readers include Cool Cleveland’s own Mansfield Frazier.
The scoop:
American society ignores the incarceration system. We refuse to acknowledge the problems in the system that lead to the disproportional representation of African Americans in prisons, refuse to do anything to change that system, and even refuse to have books that talk about race and incarceration written by African Americans on library shelves, bookstores and classrooms.
Readers include:
Prisscilla Cooper, CEO & president, Family Connection Center
Mansfield Frazier, reentry advocate and writer
Basheer Jones, community activist, poet, and radio personality, WERE
Dontavius Jarrells, youth activist
Peter Lawson Jones, Cuyahoga County Commissioner
Dr. Rhonda Williams, director, Social Justice Institute, Case Western Reserve University
Mexie Wilson, hip hop activist
Mittie Imani Jordan, President of Restoration Fource, Inc. and Deuteronomy 8:3
The event is totally free.
Karamu House – 2355 E. 89th St.
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