Interaction of race with the United States Senate Procedures from a 1950s summer. The book she is currently working on race. The book she is discussing tonight is about race and criminal justice. I guess you can say dr. Moore practices what she preaches. She was appointed by governor paterson to a fouryear term on the judicial conduct and appointed by the new york state sent to the Advisory Council on underage drinking and substance abuse. The last book might by no means least for liberal arts college selected as one of the top three in the professors in the country. It was influenced by some very Life Experiences she had in her early teenage years in the Robert Taylor homes in chicago the largest Housing Project United States. Sociologist William Wilson used the Robert Taylor homes in his groundbreaking study to illustrate the growing problems of dislocation innercity. Wilson observed in 1980 3a little more than. 5 of chicagos more than 3 Million People lived in the Robert Taylor Home
Hinton will join us from alabama along with his attorney Bryan Stevenson of the equal Justice Initiative. Then we go to louisiana to speak with a prosecutor who is apologizing for making a mistake that put another innocent man on death row for 30 years. [indiscernible] that i didnt follow up, that i should have done more, that i had an obligation to do more. Amy while when ford was released from prison in 2014 the state of louisiana is refusing to offer compensation for wrongfully jailing him for 30 years. He got the news and hospice where he is dying of cancer. We will speak with the prosecutor marty stroud. And we will look at the American Pharmacist associations new policy urging members not to supply drugs used in lethal injections. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Kenya has launched strikes inside somalia following last weeks massacre by the militant group alshabab. 148 people, mostly students, we
Hello everybody, i have the job of introducing dr. Moore for todays book presentation and discussion. Now, when i agreed to do this, she and i talked about the best way to introduce her in the talk, and we decided the best way to do it was to mix things up from the traditional way and change it up a bit. So im going to begin by briefly introducing her Research Interests and professional activities and then say a bit more about where shes coming from in the book by liberal libor rowing from within the preface of the book. Her first book examined the interaction of race with the United States Senate Procedures from the 1950s onward. The book shes currently working on probes the politics of the Supreme Court Decision Making on race. And the book to be discussed tonight is about race and criminal justice. I guess you can say dr. Moore practices what she preaches. She was appointed by governor paterson to a fouryear term on new York State Commission on judicial conduct and was later appoint
Will answer to god. That is all i have to say. Amy Anthony Ray Hinton is freed from prison after spending nearly 30 years on death row. His lawyers say race, poverty, inadequate legal assistance, and prosecutorial indifference to innocence conspired to create a textbook example of injustice. Hinton will join us from alabama along with his attorney Bryan Stevenson of the equal Justice Initiative. Then we go to louisiana to speak with a prosecutor who is apologizing for making a mistake that put another innocent man on death row for 30 years. [indiscernible] that i didnt follow up, that i should have done more, that i had an obligation to do more. Amy while when ford was released from prison in 2014 the state of louisiana is refusing to offer compensation for wrongfully jailing him for 30 years. He got the news and hospice where he is dying of cancer. We will speak with the prosecutor marty stroud. And we will look at the American Pharmacist associations new policy urging members not to
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