Jun
8
5:00pm
The Current Presents: Humanity on Trial
By Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group and The Frederick Douglass Project for Justice are hosting a live panel discussion about racial inequality in America’s criminal justice system and the urgent need for reform that considers the humanity of the impacted.
Panelists include Yusef Salaam, author of Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice (Grand Central Publishing), Sylvia A. Harvey, author of The Shadow System: Mass Incarceration and the American Family (Bold Type Books), and Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (Little, Brown).
The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Marc Howard (Founder and President of The Frederick Douglass Project for Justice) and hosted by Clive Priddle (Publisher of PublicAffairs and host of The Current). The Current is a webseries and podcast that interviews nonfiction authors about pressing topics.
Order your copies of Better,Not Bitter, Halfway Home and The Shadow System through our event bookseller partner, Word Up Community Bookshop. For each book sold through Word Up in connection with this special episode, HBG will donate a copy to the Million Book Project in support of their prison library program.
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