WBAI-FM Upcoming Program
On Contact with Chris Hedges

Sun, Feb 21, 2021 12:30 PM

POWER OF CLASSICS FOR ELUCIDATING MASS INCARCERATION

On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the power of the classics, such as Sophocles' play Philoctetes, to elucidate mass incarceration with Emily Allen-Hornblower and Marquis McCray.

Emily Allen-Hornblower is a professor of Classics at Rutgers University and recipient of a Whiting Foundation grant to foster dialogues about the classics with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men and women.

Marquis McCray, a social justice advocate who spent 28 years in prison and studied the classics through the prison college program offered by Rutgers University.
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