Black Heritage Room Lecture presents SU law professor Angela Allen-Bell
Acclaimed professor to present dialogue on speech, expression, and messages of Black women at the Scotlandville Branch on Sunday, March 3 at 3 p.m.
Law professor Angela A. Allen-Bell at the Scotlandville Branch on Sunday, March 3 at 3 p.m. for a presentation entitled “Incarcerating the Speech, Expressions, and Messages of Black Women: An Overlooked Obstacle in the Campaign to Dismantle the Carceral State.” Case studies of Black women who used these methods as a means of battling systematic injustice.
This Women’s History Month lecture uses case studies that involve Black women who used speech expressions and messages as their weapon for dismantling systemic injustice.
Allen-Bell is the B. K. Agnihotri Endowed Professor at the Southern University Law Center. Her work is focused on the interplay between race and justice, civil and human rights, racial equity, and social, transformative and restorative justice. Her research catapulted the movement to end the use of non-unanimous juries in Louisiana.
The Scotlandville Branch Library is located at 7373 Scenic Highway in Baton Rouge.