Marlon Peterson on Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

(4/12/21) Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. In the aftermath of childhood trauma, he participated in a robbery that resulted in two murders. At the age of 19, Marlon served a 10-year prison sentence. While incarcerated, he immersed himself in anti-violence activism, education and prison abolition work. In his new memoir Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song, Marlon challenges the typical “redemption” narrative and our assumptions about what real justice is. Join us for a dramatic rethinking of the prison industrial complex in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.