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Insha Rahman
As Director of Strategy & New Initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice, Rahman helps incubate new work in the areas of prosecutorial reform, bail, and decarceration, with a focus on developing advocacy-related strategies and accountability. Having practiced as a public defender before coming to Vera, she is a nationally-recognized expert on bail and has…
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Peter Kadens
Peter Kadens currently serves as the chairman of the Kadens Family Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to closing the pervasive wealth and education gaps in the U.S. He retired in August 2018 as CEO of Green Thumb Industries, one of the largest publicly-traded, legal cannabis operators in the U.S. with a current market capitalization of…
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Peniel E. Joseph
Tags Share The 2023 Book Award winner was “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century” by historian Peniel Joseph. The book offers a powerful interpretation of recent history, arguing that the racial reckoning of 2020 marked the climax of a Third Reconstruction: a new struggle for citizenship and dignity for…
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Elizabeth K. Hinton
Tags Share The 2022 RFK Book Award winners were “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together” by Heather McGhee and “America on Fire” by Elizabeth Hinton. “America on Fire” presents a new framework for understanding our nation’s broken criminal legal system, tracing the untold history of police violence…
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Heather McGhee
Tags Share The 2022 RFK Book Award winners were “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together” by Heather McGhee and “America on Fire” by Elizabeth Hinton. McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we…
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Claudio Saunt
Tags Share Claudio Saunt received the 2021 RFK Book Award for Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. In May 1830, the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River. In a firestorm of fraud…
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Jonathan Metzl
Tags Share Jonathan Metzl received the 2020 RFK Book Award for Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland. With the rise of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, many middle- and lower-income white Americans threw their support behind conservative politicians who pledged to make life great…
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Shane Bauer
Tags Share Shane Bauer received the 2019 RFK Book Award for American Prison. In 2014, award-winning journalist Shane Bauer went undercover as an entry-level guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an expose…
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Timothy B. Tyson
Tags Share Timothy B. Tyson received the 2018 RFK Book Award for The Blood of Emmett Till. In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public…
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Peter Edelman
Tags Share Peter Edelman received the 2018 RFK Book Award for Not a Crime to Be Poor. As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today. Through money bail systems, fees and fines, strictly enforced laws…
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