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This is the third lecture in the three-part W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series by Danielle Allen, Professor of Government, Professor of Education, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University. This lecture is co-sponsored with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
"Cuz, or the life and times of Michael A (1979-2009)"
April 5: "Release and Resurrection"
April 6: "Inferno"
April 7: "An Unforgiving World"
These lectures are a meditation on the impact of the criminal justice system, and especially the juvenile justice system, on the African American community in the late 20th century as seen in the story of the life of one young man, Allen’s cousin, Michael, who went to prison when he was fourteen, got out when he was twenty six and, when he was twenty-nine, was killed by someone he had met in prison.