Policing and Mass Incarceration in America with Dr. Elizabeth Hinton

WHAT: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is hosting one of the nation’s leading experts on criminalization and policing for a lecture on May 19. Dr. Elizabeth Hinton, associate professor of history and African American Studies at Yale University, is the author of several books and articles on the persistence of poverty, racial inequality and urban violence in the 20th century United States. Her latest book, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s, will be the topic of her discussion at the Freedom Center. In it, she illustrates how Black rebellion was born in response to poverty, exclusion and police violence. The lecture will be preceded by a reception with light fares.
 
The lecture is free but registration is required. Register at freedomcenter.org.
 
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Dr. Hinton’s lecture is part of the Freedom Center’s latest exhibition, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, which showcases artwork from formerly incarcerated artists and criminal justice advocates.
 
WHEN: Thursday, May 19
6 p.m. Reception with light fares
6:45 p.m. Lecture
 
WHERE: National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
50 E. Freedom Way
Cincinnati, OH 45202
 
WHO: Dr. Elizabeth Hinton, associate professor of history and African American Studies at Yale University and author of America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s.
 
COST: FREE