Diversity Lecture Series features Benjamin Todd Jealous

Please join us as we celebrate 21 years of diverse voices at our Annual Diversity Lecture Series, Wednesday, February 17, featuring Benjamin Todd Jealous, Civil and Human Rights Leader, former NAACP President, Venture Capitalist and Author, “Mass Incarceration and Justice in America,” 7:00 p.m., Fountain Street Church, 24 Fountain Street NE. Free and open to all.

“Mass Incarceration and Justice in America”
Benjamin Todd Jealous, former NAACP president, recently joined the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kapor Capital. Jealous says, “reforming the nation’s criminal justice systems is one of the most urgent civil right issues of our time. More African American men are entangled in the criminal justice system today than were enslaved in 1850.”

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