Cops, Curfews, and the Criminalization of Black Youth in DC

An Assata Shakur Study Groups session of Pan-African Community Action (PACA)

About this Event

In D.C., Black youth are disproportionately targeted through curfews, police surveillance, and the school-to-Pr*son pipeline, reinforcing a system built to criminalize and incarcerate them. These actions are part of a broader history of subjugation and violence rooted in slavery, colonialism, and capitalism. However despite this repression, youth have always played a central role in revolutionary movements against state oppression. From the Black Panther Party to the Young Lords, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Liberation Army, Black youth have been at the forefront of organizing for community power and social transformation.

Join Pan African Community Action (PACA) for the next Assata Shakur Study Group to explore how the criminalization of Black youth operates in D.C. and why it’s essential for youth to be at the heart of revolutionary response to community issues.

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided!

This is a hybrid event with an . Select the appropriate option when you register. If you select the option to participate on Zoom, an access link will be emailed to you on the day of the event.

If attending in person, please wear a mask and don’t come if you’re sick!

PACA is part of the historic and global movement for Pan-Africanism, or the liberation and unification of Africa and of African people on the continent and in the diaspora, under the economic system of scientific socialism.

As part of the Pan-African movement, PACA is a grassroots group of African/Black people organizing for community-based power.

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