forward by an author, and an activist and a lawyer named michelle alexander. i was coming out of a program similar to this at the library one evening and one of the panelists was the late vincent harding i knew him from my days at a student at the college and he saw me, he knows me as calvin he said hey, calvin before you leave, i want to make sure you get a book. and i said what book is that? he said the jim crow and i went and got the bock and i read it like many of us -- i was further enlightened and, of course, became increasingly even more angry. so i thank michelle for being here tonight. i thank suzanne for being here tonight. and also thank you for coming so that you can learn more about women and mass incarceration. this today would be the 92nd anniversary of the birth malcolm

people in the audience. i see vivian nixon back there in the back from college and community. she's educating all of the women. and i see counsel members over here -- yeah. so i want the counsel members to stand, donna, i don't know how many of y'all are out here but yen mail wept out -- so -- you know. these are the warrior women on the frontline, so you know it sounds like i'm going to do all of this. we're going to do this and all of you too. i mean, you can't leave here tonight and not think about what are you going to do to take your community back to make it safer. to make it holier and that's what i'll propose -- >> and then -- suzanne are you saying you're bringing new way of life to new york from california or expand? >> so yeah.