![]() ![]() ![]() She makes clear that unlike White youth, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and who they want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to White America and are denied healthy adolescent development. Henning explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and she details the long-term consequences of racism that they experience at the hands of the police and their vigilante surrogates. Attorney and Georgetown Professor Kristin Henning, author of The Rage of Innocence, joins Dishon Rucker, Assistant Program Manager of CPA’s REGIONS Hamden Program.ĭrawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young people and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children. ![]() Community Partners in Action (CPA), Everyday Democracy and The Mark Twain House & Museum are partnering together for an important conversation on how the American criminal justice system views, targets and disproportionately punishes Black youth. ![]()
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