5 major cities the 1st lets take a look at whats happening across the country the mayors of los angeles that land denver and portland have announced nighttime curfew is in an effort to stop more violent demonstrations minneapolis announced the measure on friday off the shots were looted and cars and buildings set on fire. But no protests have broken out in los angeles where a Police Cruiser was set on fire all the demonstrations have been held in miami and chicago and in minnesota where george floyd died the governor says hes fully mobilizing the National Guard for the 1st time in the States History but warns he still doesnt have enough troops. President trump says the oath already is then need to get tougher on his offer to send in the national military. Police officer derek sjodin has been charged with george. But there are other officers who were present to be charged over his death lets go 1st to new york and talk to Gabriel Elizondo youve been following these protests all day this
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Producer and a prison rights activist. The founds the prison to College Pipeline program which provides inmates access to College Course cozy college when theyre released. To my far right is Elizabeth Hinton asian assistant professor of history and africanamerican studies at harvard university. Her Research Focus us on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th 20th century united states. She is the author or from the war of poverty to the war on crime. I dont know how many people have any connection to any of the prisons in illinois, but my guess is that they are fairly distant to many of us. Prisons are in many ways Huge Industry in illinois and at the center of the criminal Justice System here. Although you both come at the issue from different angles, id like too first talk about how you came to the subject. Baz. So, i was i actually in a strange way came through journalism. Was doing a lot of writing for main stream publications about crime and pop culture and th
Good afternoon, im steve mills, reporter the talk tribune tied we talk about prison, the astounding growth of the prison population in america and the roll prisons play in society and how that might change in the future mitchell guests are Baz Dreisinger and Elizabeth Hinton. Baz is the author of incarceration nation a she visited prisons in Nine Countries to better understand our attitudes towards crime, punishment and incarceration. A professor at john j. College in new york, baz is also a journalist, film and radio producer and a prison rights activist. The founds the prison to College Pipeline program which provides inmates access to College Course cozy college when theyre released. To my far right is Elizabeth Hinton asian assistant professor of history and africanamerican studies at harvard university. Her Research Focus us on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th 20th century united states. She is the author or from the war of poverty to the war on crime.
The final panel from this Years National black writers conference. Thank you for coming out this afternoon. We really, really, really are glad to see you here and glad you stayed over these four days. When i founded the center for black literature in 2003, one of the major goals was to host the National Black writer withs conference, and it was a vision of john oliver kilns who was poet and writer in residence at that time, and he would have been 100 years in january. He wanted to support the work of black writers by hosting programs and holding a conference every year. And we did this through the center for black literature where we have literary readings, workshops, symposia and Youth Programs for our students. Its called, our Youth Program is called reenvisioning our lives through literature. Weve continued to do this. And as i think over these last four days, i know John Oliver Killens would be smiling. I thank him for his visioning, and i thank all of you for coming together to ce