Locked Out, Locked Up: Black Men in America will include a panel discussion on the mass incarceration of back men in the United States. Read the full story at The Martha’s Vinyard Times.
Professor Gates is one of the nation’s pre-eminent African-American scholars. The Harvard professor was arrested at his home in Mass. last year and charged with disorderly conduct. President Obama eventually held a “Beer Summit” for Professor Gates and the police officer that arrested him. The charges were dropped against Gates.
IN MY OPINION, the police officer had no business at the White House and he did act stupidly – but that’s another story. The professor’s experience does shed a little light on the incarceration epidemic of black men.
The Du Bois Institute at Harvard University is the nation’s oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans and African Americans
