The Rage of Innocence | How America Criminalizes Black Youth

You are invited to a zoom presentation and discussion with Professor Kristin Henning, Bloom Professor of Law at GW Law School organized by Hill Havurah and Capitol Hill Village. Professor Henning is the author of The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.

Drawing on her 25 years’ representing Black youth at Washington DC’s Public Defender Service, Prof. Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of Black youth and compellingly argues that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship with Black children. She explains how many Black youth are viewed as a threat to white Americans and how, when denied healthy adolescent development, the outcome can result in fear, resentment and resistance to police as well as a lifetime of trauma.