Reserve Your Spot:
April 20 at 6:00 p.m.
Join us on Tuesday, April 20, from 6:00 - 7:35 p.m. for a special screening of the short film, "Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem" and post-screening community conversation with local leaders from the New England Innocence Project, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, and the ACLU of Massachusetts.
This film exposes how our country’s history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of power using the criminal legal system. 13 million people a year – most of them poor and people of color – are abused by this system. Through first-person accounts of those charged under the Black Codes of the Reconstruction era paralleled with the outrageous stories of people trapped in the system today, the film brings to light the unfolding of a powerful engine of profits and racial inequality. With the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, this film provides historical context and examines America’s history of racist oppression.
Conversation and Audience Q&A
Moderated by David Harris, Managing Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, the film screening will be followed by a community conversation about how this abuse impacts our community on a local level with Radha Natarajan, Executive Director of the New England Innocence Project, and Rahsaan Hall, Director of the Racial Justice Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts.