College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters

"Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream"

Live-streamed on Monday, January 21, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. in 1030 CASL Building.

January 21, 2013
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Join Us for this LIVE-STREAMED Event!

In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Day, Dr. Angela Davis, famous African American freedom movement activist and scholar, will speak at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.  And her talk will be live-streamed to the UM-Dearborn campus.

Monday, January 21, 2013
2:00 p.m.
"Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream"
Live-streaming in room 1030 CASL Building.
Free and open to the public.

Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita from the University of California Santa Cruz, is internationally known for her decades of work fighting oppression of all forms. She particularly urges us to think about a world without prisons and discusses alternatives to the American prison industrial complex.

This event is co-sponsored by the UM-Ann Arbor Library; the African and African Studies Program, UM-Dearborn; the Black Student Union, UM-Dearborn; and the Dean’s Office, CASL.

For more information about the event or if you require special accommodations under the ADA, contact Professor Gloria House.

The University of Michigan-Dearborn does not necessarily endorse speakers’ views.