Decriminalizing Play & Educating Stakeholders on the Value of Play in Healthy Adolescent Development

In this second session of our 2022 Racial Justice Training Series and Book Club, Prof. Kristin Henning was joined by Prof. Harrison P. Pickney of Clemson University’s College of Behavioral, Social, and Health Sciences; and Dr. Rasul Mowatt, Department Head of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management at North Carolina State University.

This session was built around Chapter 2, Toy Guns, Cell Phones, and Parties: Criminalizing Black Adolescent Play, of Prof. Henning’s book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.