The Black Underclass and America’s Criminal Justice System
A Justice and Journalism Forum at the ‘NEW’ Center on the Media, Crime and Justice
Tuesday, November 28
1:45 - 4:15 p.m.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Theater Lobby
899 Tenth Avenue, New York City
(between 58th and 59th Streets)

Moderator:
Ellis Cose, Contributing Editor and Columnist, Newsweek Magazine; author, Envy of the World and Bone to Pick

Panel:
Elijah Anderson, The Charles and William Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; author, Code of the Street
Bob Herbert, Columnist, The New York Times
Connie Rice, Co-Director, The Advancement Project, Los Angeles

A freewheeling discussion about the black underclass and crime and punishment – how the criminal justice is failing poor African Americans and what needs to be changed, the historical context, “the code of the street” and black crime, and what
the black “community” can do to reduce crime and violence in low-income neighborhoods.

This discussion, open to the public, is part of the opening conference of the Criminal Justice Fellowships program of the Institute for Justice and Journalism (IJJ) at the University of Southern California’s Annneberg School for Communication.

The IJJ Criminal Justice Fellowships conference is among activities launching the new Center on the Media, Crime and Justice at City University of New York’s John Jay College. The new center is a partnership of IJJ, John Jay College, Criminal Justice
Journalists and the new CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.