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Film Screening of "American Violet"

In the midst of historic reforms to the Rockefeller Drug Laws, the ACLU and NYCLU will host a preview screening of AMERICAN VIOLET, the highly anticipated new film inspired by the true story of a drug

Prisons, Police, Race, and the War on Drugs

Hosted by the NYU Wagner Criminal Justice Student Group, the Students of African Descent Alliance, and the Correctional Association of NY. Join leading academicians, activists, political figures and lawyers in a discussion on a critical, oft neglected, public policy issue of the day: how police, prosecutorial and prison related practices lead to the dramatically disproportionate confinement of poor people of color.