Georgetown Law Professor Abbe Smith will moderate a panel discussion on how to deal with America’s Mass Incarceration Crisis. Premal Dharia and her latest book, Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change will fuel the conversation. The panel will provide perspectives from formerly incarcerated people: Troy Burner, wrongly incarcerated for over 24 years, and Vincent (more…)

Join HumanitiesDC and guest curator Tracy Chiles McGhee for an exploration of James Baldwin’s profound legacy in “James Baldwin at 100: Celebrating the Enduring Witness.” This event marks the centennial of Baldwin’s birth and explores what it means to ‘bear witness’ in today’s world and how we, as artists, writers, and citizens, use our voices (more…)

Join us for an insightful evening at Busboys and Poets as we engage in conversation with Rania Khalek, a prominent Middle-East based journalist for Breakthrough News. Known for her incisive reporting and analysis, Rania hosts the show Dispatches and co-hosts the weekly Freedom Side livestream with Eugene Puryear. This event, titled “War on Lebanon,” promises (more…)

Scholar, artist, and policymaker Dr. Elizabeth Rule (enrolled citizen, Chickasaw Nation) will screen a rough cut of her forthcoming documentary, DC is Indian Land. Derived from her award-winning book, Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation’s Capital (Georgetown University Press, 2023), this film is an oral history investigation of both the histories and contemporary experiences (more…)