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The Nation.
March 9, 2018
It's one of the amazing things about the high-crime years of the 1990s, documented with incredible care by James Forman Jr. in Locking Up Our Own, a phenomenal book. Black mayors in major cities sound as Nixonian as anyone when talking about the “drug thugs” and the “gun thugs” and drug dealers'Ãâà...
Detroit Free Press
March 5, 2018
A glimmer of hope emerged in the wake of the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida: young students across the country are rising up and speaking out to demand safer schools. If there is any doubt that the voices of these young adults can have a lasting impact, one onlyÃâà...
The Free Press of the University of Southern Maine
March 5, 2018
Dr. James Forman Jr. came to USM to speak about his book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. This was part of this year's Gloria S. Duclos Convocation, following the theme of race and participatory democracy. The event was held on the Portland campus in the AbromsonÃâà...
Campus Times
March 4, 2018
Yale professor and acclaimed author James Forman Jr. urged UR students to think small and local during his seminar last Thursday as he explained how to reform the criminal justice system. A skilled storyteller, Forman led a rapt audience through the argument of his book, “Locking Up Our Own,”Ãâà...
JSTOR Daily
February 14, 2018
Only a year after it was founded, in 1961, the SNCC accepted James Forman as its Executive Secretary. Like many of his colleagues, Forman was a young African American who was inspired by the struggle for decolonization in Africa. Over the course the past four years, he had seen the white supremacistÃâà...
Minnesota Public Radio News (blog)
February 12, 2018
A November 2017 broadcast of the Westminster Town Hall Forum. The featured speaker is James Forman, Jr. He's a law professor at Yale University and author of the book, “Locking Up Our Own.” Forman also founded the Maya Angelou Charter School serving incarcerated and troubled youth. His talk isÃâà...
Minnesota Public Radio News
February 11, 2018
A broadcast of the Westminster Town Hall Forum featuring James Forman, Jr. a law professor at Yale University and author of the book, "Locking Up Our Own." Forman founded the Maya Angelou Public Charter School serving incarcerated and troubled youth. Forman's talk is titled, "Crime and PunishmentÃâà...
WPSU
February 9, 2018
“Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America” is a book that looks at how African American leaders–with the best intentions–made choices that eventually helped create mass incarceration. James Forman Jr., a law professor at Yale University, is the author of the book. After getting his lawÃâà...
New Haven Independent
February 8, 2018
On the menu: An inside view of Hollywood scriptwriting. Or of immigration reform. Or of the Yale Art Gallery. Or politics, courtesy of a leading New York Times op-ed writer. Or the menu will feature singing Broadway tunes with a master at the keyboard. Of course, the menu will feature great food, too.
Penn State News
January 16, 2018
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — James Forman Jr., professor of law at Yale Law School, will present a free lecture titled “Can the Criminal Justice System Ever Be Just?” at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 31, in 112 Kern Building at University Park. A graduate of Atlanta's Roosevelt High School, Brown University,Ãâà...
Truth-Out
January 15, 2018
Integration leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (center) and the Integration leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the James Forman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee announced at a news conference that their respective organizations would begin working together on civil rights projects. SingerÃâà...
The Daily Collegian Online
October 13, 2017
Exploring topics of racial discrimination and distribution of political power, Yale Law School professor and author James Forman, Jr., spoke at Penn State on Thursday, Oct. 12. In the Sutliff Auditorium of the Lewis Katz Building, Forman discussed his latest book “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and PunishmentÃâà...
NPR
July 17, 2017
JAMES FORMAN JR: So this speech is where the judge starts off by saying, you know, Mr. Forman has told me that you've had a hard life and you deserve a second chance. Let me tell you about hard. Let me tell you about Jim Crow - because the judge, Curtis Walker - he had grown up under Jim Crow,Ãâà...
The Guardian
April 29, 2017
James Forman Jr, son of civil rights leader James Forman Sr, knew from his time as a public defender in Washington DC that such broadsides are patently wrong. In his new book, Locking Up Our Own, he goes beyond the broader argument – that it's reasonable to expect more from sworn law enforcementÃâà...
The CT Mirror
December 31, 1999
New Haven – James Forman Jr. is a professor at Yale Law School, where he teaches courses including constitutional law, “Race, Class and Punishment” and a seminar where he brings law students into a Connecticut prison to take a class alongside people incarcerated. The son of civil rights activists,Ãâà...
