The Wayne State University Law School’s Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights will present “Racial Profiling and Youth of Color…Is It Safe to Be Me?,” a community panel discussion, on Monday, April 2 in the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights Lecture Hall.
This event, scheduled from 6-8 p.m., is free and open to the public.
Participants include Congressman Hansen Clarke; S. Joy Gaines, assistant public defender, Washtenaw County; Detroit attorney Lynda White; Shareef Akeel, chair, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee–Michigan’s Advisory Board; Ron Scott, director, Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality; Assistant Professor of Law (clinical) Eric Williams and Associate Professor of Law Jocelyn Benson, Wayne State University.
“The recent shooting of Trayvon Martin has brought the issue of racial profiling and youth of color to the forefront of the conversation in the social justice community and beyond,” said Kimberly Adams, a third-year law student and the Keith Collection research fellow, who organized the event.
The event, she said, “will inform the community about issues involving racial profiling and youth, and provide a forum to discuss solutions to this ongoing problem.”
The Keith Center honors the life and legacy of Judge Damon J. Keith.
For more information, visit keithcenter.wayne.edu.
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