Prison Protest

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 16, 2011

Angela Davis, activist, scholar, and author of Are Prisons Obsolete?, marks the 40th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising with her critique of the "prison-industrial complex."

Event: Angela Davis will be speaking as part of a panel at a May 20th event called "The World We Want is the World We Need."

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