New Abolitionists: Stepping Up to The Plate; Conversation with Joseph Worthy, Sarah Robinson, and Tosin Shenbanjo
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2012
Abstract
An African-American boy born in the twenty-first century has a 1 in 3 chance of ending up in prison in his lifetime. For Latinos, the number is 1 in 6. This cradle to prison pipeline has been called the "New Jim Crow". What do these numbers mean to students and organizers? This week, Regionally Speaking invited those behind Case Western Reserve University's New Abolitionist chapter. From the young voices of Sarah Robinson, Joseph Worthy, and Tosin Shenbanjo, we learn that driving principle of the group is that the status quo is injustice, and it can be changed. Joseph Worthy, National Coordinator of Youth, Leadership, and Development for the Children's Defense Fund Sarah Robinson, Assistant Director at CWRU's Schubert Center for Child Studies and an organizer for CWRU's New Abolitionist Tosin Shenbanjo, Vice President of CWRU's New Abolitionist.
Keywords
Anti-racism--Ohio--Cleveland, Social change--Ohio--Cleveland
Publication Title
Regionally Speaking: A Virtual Symposium
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Haddad, Gladys; Worthy, Joseph; Robinson, Sarah; and Shenbanjo, Tosin, "New Abolitionists: Stepping Up to The Plate; Conversation with Joseph Worthy, Sarah Robinson, and Tosin Shenbanjo" (2012). Regionally Speaking: A Virtual Symposium. 69.
https://commons.case.edu/regionally-speaking/69
Transcript of interview
