Screening: Racially Charged, America's Misdemeanor Problem

This film exposes how our country’s history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of power using the criminal legal system. 13 million people a year – most of them poor and people of color – are abused by this system. Through first-person accounts of those charged under the Black Codes of the Reconstruction era paralleled with the outrageous stories of people trapped in the system today, the film brings to light the unfolding of a powerful engine of profits and racial inequality. With the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, this film provides historical context and examines America’s history of racist oppression.

Moderated by David Harris, Managing Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, the film screening will be followed by a conversation between the audience and Radha Natarajan, Executive Director of the New England Innocence Project, and Rahsaan Hall, Director of the Racial Justice Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts.

Racially Charged: A Film Screening & Conversation