Khali Gibran Muhammad to discuss race and criminal justice at Congregation Kol Ami

Khali Gibran Muhammad will discuss race and the criminal justice system following a Shabbat service and dinner at Congregation Kol Ami on Friday July 24th. Visitors are invited to dinner but reservations are required.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and a Visiting Professor at The CUNY Graduate Center and will speak on "Race and the Criminal Justice System: Reflections on Baltimore and Staten Island," on Friday July 24th at 8 pm.

Muhammad is an expert on African-American history and holds a doctorate in US history from Rutgers University. A former associate professor of history at Indiana University, he is a contributor to a 2014 National Research Council study, "The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences, and is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America" (Harvard), which won the 2011 John Hope Franklin Best Book award in American Studies. His research focuses on racial criminalization in modern U.S. history and has been featured in a number of national print and broadcast media outlets, including the New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, Moyers and Company, and MSNBC.

There will be a Shabbat service at 6:15 pm, followed by a BBQ dinner at 7:15 pm. Please RSVP to Ilene Miller at Ilenemiller@nykolami.org, or call 914-949-4717

Congregation Kol Ami
252 Soundview Avenue
White Plains, NY
914-949-4717
www.nykolami.org