Decriminalizing Race Pride, Free Speech, & Adolescent Identity Development

For the July session of our 2022 Racial Justice Training Series, Prof. Kristin Henning and Mary Ann Scali were joined by Dr. Kristia Wantchekon, Secondary Lecturer of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and incoming Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, and Orlando Johnson, Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University School of Law Fellow.

This session was built around Chapter 5, Policing Identity: The Politics of Adolescence and Black Identity Development, of Prof. Henning’s book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.