The Vote, Caste, and the Carceral State

Welcome: Drum solo by Ron Savage · Danny Glover reading Rev. Turner McNeal's Address to Congress, 1865 · Welcome by Dr. Janet Moses

Lecture #1: Kirsten Mullen — "The Principles of Reconstruction: Still a Viable Route to Full Citizenship" · Moderator: Nicholas Lemann

Lecture #2: Julian Zelizer (Princeton) — "LBJ, Atlantic City and the Taming of the Civil Rights Movement… And Here We Are!" · Moderator: Joannie Wynne

Show & Tell Sessions: DESPA Experience (Cliff Freeman, Greg Budzban) · Reconstruction Data (Prof. Nathan Alexander, Howard/Morehouse) · Street Theory Art (Victor Quiñonez / Marka27, Moses Mitchell) · 21st Century Freedom School with incarcerated artists (Claudia Peña, Bryonn Bain / UCLA)

Lecture #3: Elizabeth Hinton (Yale) — "Mass Incarceration: The Social Control of 'Disposable' Communities" · Moderator: Maria Lovett (FIU)

Lecture #4: Laura Kurgan (Columbia) — "The Carceral Merry Go Round: Million Dollar Blocks" · Moderator: Ben Moynihan

Welcome: Invocation by 2Truth, Spoken Word Artist · Welcome by Ben Moynihan

Lecture #5: Bettina Love (Columbia) — "Africans Built the Pyramids. How Come Black Kids in America Can't Do Math?" · Moderator: Brian Williams (FIU)

Lecture #6: Margaret Burnham (Northeastern) — "The Jim Crow Roots of Police Violence in Black and Latino Communities" · Moderator: Ernesto Cortes (MacArthur Fellow, IAF)

Panels: Voting Our Way Out (Liz Miranda, Rahsaan Hall, Jacqueline Fonseca, Christopher Worrell) · Organizing Education Inside and Outside the Wall (Lee Perlman/MIT, Mac Hudson/Emerson, Stan Andrisse/Howard)

Lecture #7: William Darity Jr. — "The IOU for the Devastation of Black Life: From Slavery and Jim Crow to Mass Incarceration" · Moderator: Tasseli McKay

DESPA Presentation: Greg Budzban, Cliff Freeman, Amina Osman, Sharif Abdullahi

Closing Panel: "Where Do We Go From Here?" — William Darity, Margaret Burnham, Liz Miranda, Elizabeth Hinton, Sean Evelyn (Truth) · Moderator: Ernesto Cortes

Closing Remarks: Dr. Janet Moses