Today’s Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University features University of North Carolina music professor Mark Katz speaking on his book, “Rap and Redemption of Death Row – Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose Behind Bars,” which was published last April. A hip-hop-rich prison memoir, chronicles inmate Alim Braxton’s struggles and triumphs as he attempts to record an album while on death row, something no one has done before. Free to the public with no tickets required.