Hybrid History Happy Hour - Illustrating Death Row: From Personal to Policy

In-Person – $15 for Museum members, $20 for non-members
Virtual – free for Museum members, $5 for non-members

Along with Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore, the United States is one of four advanced democracies and the only Western nation that applies the death penalty regularly. This program focuses specifically on racial discrimination and the death penalty, with panelists Robert Dunham and Ngozi Ndulue from the Death Penalty Information Center, and Kenneth Reams, an inmate serving life in prison. Together the speakers will discuss excessive punishment in an historical and social context and how judicial practices overwhelmingly target Black men who are over-represented in prisons and on death row.  Mr. Reams will share his own story of being sentenced to death while a teenager, and his fight to be released from death row.  The program will conclude with a Q&A and a call to action.  How can you use your voice to change laws that allow for these racist and inhumane outcomes? This program is being held in conjunction with Creativity in Captivity: Art as a Human Right, on exhibit from September 10 – November 17, 2021. For accommodation requests, please contact the museum via email or at 301-774-0022.