The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.... April 18, 2012

Charles Ogletree, the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at the law school, will speak about his book examining the very public arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates in July 2009.

Ogletree reviews the sequence of events, then examines the incident in the wider context of issues of race and justice, exploring why the arrest escalated into a national story and what still needs to be addressed on matters such as racial profiling. This book talk and signing is cosponsored by Top Ladies of Richmond and the Library of Virginia Foundation.