On Friday, Columbia Scholar in Residence Derecka Purnell spoke about her book: Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom, and her experience with abolitionist organizing in collaboration with the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights. Content warning: mentions of violence and police brutality.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. CC ’73, LAW ’76 spoke to Columbia students about his new book Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote in an event alongside Professor Frank A. Guridy at Low Library on Thursday evening.