While recent headlines scream that “crime is up,” the reality on the ground in American neighborhoods has many nuances—details not alw

Anna Deavere Smith, actress, playwright, and founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at New York University, and Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation

In collaboration with the Aspen Criminal Justice Reform Initiative Featuring Anna Deavere Smith,

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision will disenfranchise nearly 1 million individuals in Florida. Denying people their right to vote due to unpaid debt is reminiscent of a Jim Crow era “poll tax,” continuing the systemic criminalization of the poor and people of color.

The criminalization of poverty is a stark reminder of the legacy of race and the criminal justice system.

People are being released from prisons during the pandemic, but what is happening in the communities they've returned to?

In her first two years, the city’s mayor has had no shortage of challenges and controversies.

Foss will be speaking at the Aspen Institute Symposium on the State of Race in America on April 4.