Professor Says African-American Youth Were Criminalized Posted on November 20, 2014December 1, 2014 by Kenya Janae-Hickman UW-Milwaukee Professor Joe Austin spoke Thursday about the struggle of being young and colored in the 1940’s, arguing that the news media purposely portrayed blacks as criminals, helping lead to the high black incarceration rates in the country and state. Austin was the featured speaker in the 45th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture, on the […]