President and senior counsel of the Southern Center for Human Rights and distinguished law professor Stephen Bright will join Chicago-based rapper GQ of the hip-hop collective Q Brothers, and NYC-based actor Tyrone Taylor to present an evening of discussion on the topic of criminal justice and capital punishment. Bright, GQ, and Taylor will engage in an exploration of justice as interpreted through a legal lens, the language of hip hop, and the prison experience. GQ and Taylor will open the evening with a performance of “17 to New Life,” a story of redemption and self-forgiveness told from the perspective of Taylor’s younger self. GQ and his collaborator JQ most recently wrote, directed, and prepared original music for the hip hop-inspired Othello: The Remix, which premiered at the Globe Theater in London, and was staged at Chicago’s Cook County Jail in co-production with the Chicago Shakespeare Company before debuting at NYC’s Westside Theatre last year.

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