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Professor Angela J. Davis Discusses Contemporary Issues in African American Lives at Library of Congress National Book Festival

AUWCL Professor Angela J. Davis participated in a discussion of contemporary issues in African American lives during the Library of Congress National Book Festival. Davis, an expert in criminal law and procedure, discussed the key issues of the Black Lives Matter Movement with Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor of Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies.  The discussion was moderated by Professor Jabari Asim, Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Emerson College.

Davis is currently the vice president of the board of directors of the Sentencing Project and on the board of the Southern Center for Human Rights, having previously served as Director of the D.C. Public Defender Service, executive director of the National Rainbow Coalition and law clerk for Theodore Newman, former chief judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals. She is the author of “Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor.”

Her forthcoming book, “Policing the Black Man,” a compelling anthology of essays by some of the nation’s most influential criminal justice experts and legal scholars, will be available from Pantheon next year.

For more information on the National Book Festival event, read The Washington Post’s article of the discussion.

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