Policing, Racism, and Human Rights spring 2024 speaker series
Derecka Purnell is a human rights lawyer, scholar-in-residence at Columbia Law School, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom, and will speak on Abolition and Dispossession
in conversation with
Walter Johnson, who is Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
This is the second of three talks in the IAI spring speaker series on Policing, Racism, and Human Rights (visit the website for zoom link and Harvard campus location).
