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Peter Edelman - Not a Crime to Be Poor
Thursday July 19, 2018 06:30 PM EDT
Cost: Free
From the venue:
Peter Edelman, a Georgetown law professor who;s served as a staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton, delivers a speech highlighting how money bail systems and law enforcement policies effectively make it a crime to be poor. Using the events of Ferguson, Missouri as a base to his research, Edelman ties the threads of discrimination from the local level to Capitol Hill.No venue found