Kalief Browder

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Back in 2013, Kalief Browder made headlines across the world following his three-year stint at the New York state prison, Rikers Island, without trial and in solitary confinement for allegedly stealing a backpack. Kalief's story is one that's happening every single day, one young black man after another, one cry for help after another, one fight to be seen as a human being after another.

Readings:

Before the Law

By Jennifer Gonnerman; The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law

This Is Solitary

By Natalie Chang; The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/spike/this-is-solitary/1245/

How we killed Kalief Browder

By Errol Louis, The NY Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/errol-louis-killed-kalief-browder-article-1.2250990

Video Lecture:

Journalist, professor, & civil rights activist Marc Lamont Hill, sits down with Kalief Browder and his lawyer on Browder's time in Rikers and life after his time behind bars.