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Better Late than Never--Henry Louis Gates Says Scholar Says Arrest Will Lead Him To Explore Race in Criminal Justice

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Scholar Says Arrest Will Lead Him To Explore Race in Criminal Justice By Krissah Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has spent much of his life studying the complex history of race and culture in America, but until last week he had never had the experience that has left so many black men questioning the criminal justice system. Gates was arrested outside his house in Cambridge, Mass., after a neighbor reported seeing two black men in the middle-class, predominantly white area pushing against the front door. "I studied the history of racism. I know every incident in the history of racism from slavery to Jim Crow segregation," Gates told The Washington Post on Tuesday in his first interview about the episode...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 24, 2009 (boomark / email).