James Forman, Jr.

Left Bank Books presents author and Yale law professor James Forman, Jr., who will sign and discuss his new book, "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America." This event is free and open to the public, but proof of purchase of "Locking Up Our Own" from Left Bank Books will be required to enter the signing line. In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman, Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime.