With #BlackLivesMatter bringing the 1994 Crime Bill back into the fore, and a competitive race for the Democratic presidential nomination that has placed Bill and Hillary Clinton's record back on trial in the court of public opinion, more people than ever are asking: what really happened in the 90s? How did we get here, into a world of … Continue Reading ››
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New York Academy of History Awards Prize to Dr. Michael Fortner
The New York Academy of History has chosen Murphy Professor Michael Fortner’s book, Black Silent Majority, the Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, to receive the 2016 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History. Dr. Fortner is an Assistant Professor at the Murphy Institute and the Academic … Continue Reading ››
Michael J. Fortner on Criminal Justice – Roots & Reform
Debating Criminal Justice Reform
For more on this topic, join us at the Murphy Institute on October 19th for this month's Labor Forum: Black Lives Matter & the Fight for Fifteen: A New Social Movement? When looking to reform our obviously broken criminal justice and carceral system, at what point must we examine the structural causes of urban … Continue Reading ››
More Press for Black Silent Majority
Murphy Prof. Michael Fortner's new book Black Silent Majority: the Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment has taken the media world by storm, garnering press from publications, radio and television. In addition to coverage in the New Yorker and Chronicle of Higher … Continue Reading ››
New Yorker Coverage of Book by Prof. Michael Fortner
Murphy Institute Professor Michael Fortner's hotly anticipated new book Black Silent Majority: the Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment gains yet more coverage with the latest edition of the New Yorker. In Kelefa Sanneh's review, Body Count, the writer places Fortner's book in conversation with the latest from Ta-Nehisi … Continue Reading ››
