Standalone | Johnson brings students behind bars

Dr. Paula Johnson talks to an audience in Cabot 205 Wednesday evening about race and prisons. Behind her is a projected picture of sidewalk graffiti from Washington, D.C. that says "NO PRISONS." Her speech, entitled "A Black Feminist Vision for a New Abolitionist Movement: An Agenda for Freedom, Justice, and Human Rights for Black Women's Lives," was part of the Black Cultural Studies Seminar 2006-2007 Lecture Series: Prisons. Johnson, the author of the book "Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison" (2003), is a professor at the Syracuse University College of Law.