This free evening of music, performance and conversation marks the 40th anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion and Massacre. Current prison struggles will be addressed.

with:

Dr. Cornel West
Professor, Public Intellectual and Activist

Attica Brothers

Asha Bandele
Drug Policy Alliance, Journalist, Poet

Baba Amiri Baraka
African-American Poet Laureate, Pan-African Elder Statesman, Community Activist

Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin-Wahad
Consultant, Institute For Development of Pan-African Policy, Ghana, West Africa

Soffiyah Elijah
Executive Director, Correctional Association

Elizabeth Fink
Attica Brothers Legal Defense

Joseph "Jazz" Hayden
Campaign to End the New Jim Crow

Jamal Joseph
former Black Panther; Chair, Columbia University’s School of the Arts Film division

The event is presented by Culture Project, Attica is All of Us and The Riverside Church Prison Ministry, in collaboration with the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow and The Nation.