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Home > Events & Meetings > JFK Jr. Forum Calendar > FORUM: The HBO Series "The Wire" - A Compelling Portrayal of an American City
Date: Friday, April 4 2008
Time: 05:00 PM
Location: John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum; 79 JFK St, Cambridge, MA 02138
A 4:30 pm screening of "The Wire" series highlights followed by a panel discussion of crime, gang activity, and urban policy
Event Speakers: David Simon, creator of "The Wire"; Nora Baston, Dep. Superintendent of the Boston Police; author Geoffrey Canada; Professor Sudhir A. Venkatesh, Columbia University
Event Moderators: Professor William Julius Wilson, author of "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor"
Event CoSponsors: HBO, Harvard's W.E. B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research, Department of African and African American Studies, HKS' Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
Contact: Kamron_Mitchell@harvard.edu, 617-496-3864
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