2020 Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Podcast Triptychs: Recent Episodes
Amy Hufnagel
Welcome to the first 2020 podcast program from the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, Connecticut. The Stowe Center preserves and interprets Stowe’s Hartford home and center’s collections, promotes lively discussions about her life and work, and inspires commitment to social justice and positive change.
In the midst of the pandemic, HBSC is working to move some of our onsite programming online. We are doing this in a DIY tradition, and for our speakers many are producing content this way for the first time.
Join the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center as we welcome Ken Barone, Project Manager with the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy at CCSU for a discussion about his work with The Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project.
First enacted in 1999, Connecticut’s anti-racial profiling law entitled, the Alvin W. Penn Racial Profiling Prohibition Act (Public Act 99-198), prohibits any law enforcement agency from stopping, detaining, or searching any motorist when the stop is motivated solely by considerations of the race, color, ethnicity, age, gender or sexual orientation of that individual (Connecticut General Statutes Sections 54-1l). The law was named after the late State Senator Alvin W. Penn from Bridgeport, Connecticut who championed the legislation in Connecticut. Barone and his team have published several annual and supplemental reports, quantifying the number of stops from state and local police officers. The Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project’s work creates ongoing dialogue “about race and policing that helps to build the community’s relationship with law enforcement officers.” (Wiliiam Dyson, co-chair)
Join the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center as we welcome award-winning author Roxana Robinson author of Dawson’s Fall, based on the lives of her great-grandparents. “In Dawson’s Fall, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson’s tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelist’s narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new political, social, and moral landscape.” Roxana Robinson, a descendant of Harriet Beecher Stowe. www.stowecenter.org www.roxanarobinson.com