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Critically acclaimed author
Heather Ann Thompson, a University
of Michigan history professor,
appeared Wednesday night on “The
Daily Show with Trevor Noah,”
where she discussed her research
on mass incarceration in the United
States and her new book, “Blood
in the Water: The Attica Prison
Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy.”
Thompson is a finalist for the
National Book Award and was
named to 13 best books of 2016 lists
by various publications. Her book
received high praise from authors,
professors and executives across the
country.
“This is not an easy book to
read — the countless episodes of
inhumanity on these pages are
heartbreaking,” the book’s review in
The New York Times reads. “But it is
an essential one.”
Thompson details the 1971 Attica
prison riot at the Attica Correctional
Facility in Attica, N.Y., to examine
the history of mass incarceration and
racial justice struggles in the United
States dating back to the 1970s.
The landmark prisoners’
rebellion was sparked when inmates
at the New York facility requested
political rights and better living
conditions. Almost half of the jail’s
inmates rose up against the prison
staff, taking 42 hostage.
After four days, prison
authorities agreed to succumb to
the prisoners’ demands. The riot
ultimately left 43 people dead after
state police arrived to retake the
prison. Prisoners succeeded in
shedding light on the conditions of
prisons and correctional facilities but
Thompson argues today, more than
40 years after the riot, conditions
remain poor.
“ ‘Blood in the Water’ tells of
warning signs in 1971 that still exist
more than forty years later,” writes
Soffiyah Elijah, executive director
of the Correctional Association of
New York, in a review. “Heather
Ann Thompson’s prophetic analysis
is a sobering reminder that we must
all care about what is happening to
human beings behind prison walls.”
Thompson, a University alum,
has conducted extensive research on
examining the mass incarceration
system in the United States. Her
other publications include two
articles: “Why Mass Incarceration
Matters” and “How Prisons Change
the Balance of Power in America,”
both of which have been awarded
media and journalism awards.
Thompson previously worked
on the board of the Prison Policy
Initiative and served on a National
Academy of Sciences panel to study
the effect of incarceration in the
United States.
- ERIN DOHERTY
ON THE DAILY: SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH!
EMILIE FARRUGIA/Daily
Ted London, Ross faculty member and Vice President of the Scale
Impact Initiative at the William Davidson Institute, speaks at the Positive
Links Speaker Series in Ross on Tuesday.
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Night For Us: Colorful
Soul
WHAT: Artists of color from
the Ann Arbor area will preform
half-hour sets with an open
mike beginning at 10 p.m. The
event will also have free soul
food.
WHO: Arts of Color in Ann
Arbor
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
WHERE: Canterbury House
Step Afrika!
WHAT: The first professional
step-dance company will preform
a variety of traditional African
dances and styles practiced by
historically Black fraternities and
sororities.
WHO: Office of Greek Life
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre
Houston, We Have a
Problem!
WHAT: A screening of the
2016 mockumentary by Riga
Virc’s on America’s purchase of
Yugoslavia’s space program
WHO: Center for Russian, East
European & Eurasian Studies
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: UMMA
Werner Grilk Lecture in
German Studies
WHAT:Visiting Prof. Helmut
Lethen will give a talk on
Amsterdam 1964, or Magical
Thinking in Cultural Studies
WHO: Department of Germanic
Languages and Literatures
WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham Graduate
School, East Conference Room
Safety of Autonomous
Vehicles: Technology and
Policy
WHAT: A discussion with UM
professors on the challenges of
putting autonomous vehicles on
the road.
WHO: Osher Lifelong Learning
Institue
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m
WHERE: Rave Theater
Annual Pallas Lecture:
Speaking Greek at the
American University
WHAT: Yiorgos Anagnostou,
professor of Modern Greek
at Ohio State University will
discuss his research on Greek
America.
WHO: Modern Greek Program
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall, Classics
Library
Artists Meet & Greet:
Ann Arbor Art Center
WHAT: Alloy Studio founders
Elize Jekabson, Jessica Tenbusch
and Illana Houten discuss
owning and operating an art
studio in Ypsilanti.
WHO: Ann Arbor Art Center
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE 117 W. Liberty
Hank Willis Thomas: The
Truth is I Love You
WHAT: Thomas is a Brooklyn-
based photographer, whose
work relates primarly to race
and identity. He will delievering
a lecture as part of the Art &
Design speaker series.
WHO: School of Art & Design
WHEN: 5:10 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Theater
Thomas Gaborski
@tgaborski
Our new University President
@RITtigers is an engineer,
former Engr Dean at @
UMich, and freakishly tall like
me. Sounds good!
Andrew D. Martin
@ProfADM
Just dumped a bunch of
hummus all over my suit.
#LeadersAndBest #Fashion
Kristi Johnson @KHagenJohnson
@UMich - The world
does need victors. Time
to organize with other
universities against Trump’s
war on science.
Tizarat Gill
@tizarat
when you know you can’t look
good for 2 days in a row so u
gotta choose what event is
more important to you
“We want to make sure we
have students engaged, we
want to make sure students
are interested, and so we want
to make sure students know
what’s going on,” Oland said.
“We found out that, through
our
interactions,
students
have no idea what’s coming
up and so we really wanted to
make sure we had a channel
of communication and a way
to
get
students
involved,
and
knowledge
of
what’s
happening.”
As an alum and former
member
of
the
University
marching band, Oland said
she feels a special connection
to the University and the
spirit
she
felt
during
her
time as a student. Due to this
connection, she led the group
in participating in a number
of activities, such as making a
video about the bicentennial
for the homecoming pep rally
and passing out bagels and
T-shirts in Mason Hall.
Nursing sophomore Olivia
Darany said she thinks the
amount of diverse perspectives
on the committee aid benefits
students.
“With both graduate and
undergraduate
students
representing
almost
every
school
and
college
across
campus, there’s a lot of great
perspectives
and
always
a lot of brainpower in the
room,”
Darany
said.
“Last
semester we spent a lot of time
brainstorming the best ways
to
disseminate
information
about the bicentennial, since
we really just wanted to focus
on getting the word out about
what would be coming in 2017.
Now that it’s officially the
bicentennial
year,
meetings
are
more
geared
towards
discussing the actual festivals
and events and how to make
sure they draw crowds and are
memorable.”
Engineering
senior
Azia
Harris-Martin
further
explained the importance of
having a diverse committee,
and how it inspired her to get
involved with the planning of
the bicentennial and ensure
her voice was heard.
“I by no means speak for the
Black population at Michigan,
but wanted to ensure that the
voice of people that look like
me were at least represented,”
she said. “Although this isn’t
the bicentennial of the Black
student at Michigan, I am a
proud Wolverine and I am
honored to have an impact on
such a momentous occasion.”
The
committee
worked
closely with faculty to plan
numerous
events
for
the
upcoming year. Darany said
she is most excited for the
finale
of
the
bicentennial
celebration that is set to occur
in the fall, and she highlighted
interesting events, like a time
capsule launch — organized
by the Michigan Bicentennial
Archive — happening before
then.
“Something else really cool
is being carried out by M-BARC
—
they’re
recording
thousands of interviews of
current students and faculty
and sending them all up to
space in a time capsule,”
Darany said. “But what I
really can’t wait for is the
finale of the bicentennial
next fall. There’s going to
be a huge expo in the Diag
with exhibits that feature
departments,
schools
and student orgs from all
three campuses, and it’s
all capped off by HAIL
storm, which is a light show
projected onto the facade of
Rackham Hall.”
Faculty and students alike
concluded it is important
to acknowledge the role
of students in shaping the
University
into
what
it
stands for today, and make
them feel included in the
bicentennial celebration.
“The bicentennial is really
about students,” Oland said.
“Without students, we don’t
have a university.”
BICENTENNIAL
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We want to make
sure we have
students engaged