Columbia Law School Brings Formerly Incarcerated People and Students Together for a Podcast Series

Last semester, a handful of students at Columbia Law School enrolled in the Critical Race Theory Workshop. Taught by Nash Professor of Law Kendall Thomas and Professor Flores A. Forbes, The workshop is unlike most classes at Columbia Law School.

In addition to the Columbia students, seven formerly incarcerated people were invited to take the course and share their experiences with the class. At the end of the semester, the seven participants collaborated with the students to create a podcast series, CRT2.

“The class is about the podcast,” says Professor Forbes, who described the podcast as a way to talk about Critical Race Theory with people in and outside of the Columbia community.

Critical Race Theory, also known as CRT, is a legal framework that originated in U.S. law schools in the 1980s. In the video, Professor Thomas says that CRT is designed “to make sense of the puzzling persistence of racial inequality and of relations of racial domination and disadvantage after legalized Jim Crow had been dismantled.”

Over the past few years, CRT has received widespread attention outside the legal arena. But the Critical Race Theory Workshop at Columbia Law School focuses, as it always has, within the law.

To listen to the CRT2 collaborative podcast, please visit:
https://crt2.podcasts.library.columbia.edu/

For more podcasts from Columbia Law School, visit:

https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/podcasts

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