NT-NL Giving Public Witness to Peace and Justice: The New Jim Crow in Texas

Saturday, February 2, 2013

The New Jim Crow in Texas

Registration is open for
The New Jim Crow in Texas

Register now for the May 14 special NT-NL event, The New Jim Crow in Texas – Toward a New Consensus on Justice.
Click here to go to on-line registration. Register as a Guest.

Tuesday, May 14 at King of Glory Lutheran Church,
6411 Lyndon B Johnson Freeway, Dallas

1:00 Afternoon workshop ($25 includes a light meal)
7:00 PM Michelle Alexander speech (free admission)

Click this link to download a detailed brochure.

The New Jim Crow in Texas will feature an afternoon workshop with religious and community leaders discussing racial disparity in Texas criminal justice, schools and social services. Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, will speak that evening.

The event will be available online via live-streaming video. The link for taking part this way will be at the NT-NL website: www.ntnl.org

Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. In recent years, she has taught at Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor of law and directed the Civil Rights Clinics. In 2005, she wrote The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness.

The afternoon workshop will offer a presentation by Joyce James, Director of the Center for the Elimination of Disproportionality and Disparities, and Maxine Jones-Robinson, Regional Disproportionality and Disparity Specialist, introducing the process of "Courageous Conversation."

Bishop Kevin Kanouse will provide a theological foundation for the day. A panel of resource people will discuss the intersection of race with criminal justice, education, the church and community. There will be time for discussion and interaction with the presenters.

The New Jim Crow in Texas is organized by the Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana Mission Area’s Public Witness Team and its Table Talk program, together with the Center for the Elimination of Disproportionality and Disparities (Texas Health & Human Services Commission) and King of Glory Lutheran Church.

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