Danielle Allen On Her Cousin's Unexpected Imprisonment

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 4, 2017

Danielle Allen, the James Conant Bryant University Professor at Harvard University and MacArhur foundation award-winner, joins us to discuss her memoir Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. Allen remembers her younger cousin, and tries to understand how a promising kid became caught up in the prison system and eventually met a violent end.

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