Decriminalizing Fashion & Culture for Youth of Color

The April session of our 2022 Racial Justice Training Series.

For this session, held on Monday, April 25, Prof. Kristin Henning and Ebony Howard, Deputy Director of The Gault Center, was joined by Prof. Andrea L. Dennis, Associate Dean for Faculty Development & John Byrd Martin Chair of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and author of Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America; Angeles Zaragoza, a youth defender with the Office of the Alternate Public Defender in Los Angeles County and a 2021 Ambassador for Racial Justice; and Anthony Brinkley, a student at Georgetown Law and former system-involved youth.

This session was built around Chapter 3, Hoodies, Headwraps, and Hip-Hop: Criminalizing Black Adolescent Culture, of Prof. Henning’s book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.