A.C.T.O.R (A Continuing Talk on Race) Hands Off Assata!
Date and Time
Jul 2, 2017 5:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Jul 2, 2017 5:00 pm
14th & V
The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) open discussion series is hosted by Busboys and Poets as a community service. It provides the opportunity for people to come together and speak openly and honestly about issues of race. The intent is that each person walks away from the discussion feeling something: challenged, educated, uncomfortable, enlightened, refreshed, reassured and hopefully inspired and moved to action! Each month there is a new topic for discussion.
This month's topic: Hands Off Assata!
Featuring:
Nkechi Taifa is a human rights attorney, long-standing activist, author and motivational speaker. She serves as Advocacy Director for criminal justice for an international foundation and convenes a Washington-based coalition advancing federal criminal justice policy reform. Her areas of expertise include sentencing reform, law enforcement accountability, and reentry. She has served as legislative and policy counsel for several advocacy organizations, as founding director of an award-winning legal education program, and as an adjunct law professor. She was in the leadership of the coalition responsible for the passage of the Second Chance Act reentry legislation, the Fair Sentencing Act crack disparity legislation, and she helped to fuel the advancement of executive clemency during the last term of the Obama Administration.
Nubia Kai (a.k.a. Nubia Kai Al-Nura Salaam) received a B.A. degree from Wayne State University in Anthropology and Black Studies, an M.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin in African Languages and Literature, and a Ph.D. in African Literature and Film at Howard University. A poet, playwright, storyteller, and novelist, Ms. Kai has won numerous awards for her writing, including three Michigan Council for the Arts Awards, three D.C. Commission on the Arts Awards, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and the Larry Neal Writer’s Competition for Poetry She has been published in Black Scholar, Black World, Essence Magazine, Black American Literature Forum, Quilt, Catalyst, Solid Ground, City Arts Quarterly, Obsidian, Black Books Bulletin, Moving Out, Journal of Black Poetry, Left Curve, Journal of African Literature Association, Black Camera, Journal of African American History and several other journals and anthologies.
Free and open to all. A.C.T.O.R. is held on the first Sunday of every month at Busboys and Poets 14th & V from 5:00 PM-7:00 pm.
