Episode 24 | Kristen Henning on the Criminalization of Black Adolescence

What happens to our youth if the normal and typical responses of teenage angst are heavily policed with high punitive consequences, even leading to death as we saw with the murder of Tamir Rice and other Black & brown adolescents?

What does it mean to have a dominant police presence in our schools that are predominantly African American and Hispanic in a nation with a pervasive history of excessive police violence? Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Kristin Henning, Professor of Law at Georgetown University and author of The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, published by Pantheon Books.