Sarah Haley, assistant professor of gender studies and African-American studies at UCLA; Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and assistant professor of African-American studies at Princeton; and Keisha Blain, a historian and Princeton professor, met Thursday at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City for "Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Black Women and the Criminal Justice System," a discussion of the oppression of black women, cisgender and transgender, within the judicial system.
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