Crime and Race

Perspective Is Everything

Andrea Lyon | Posted 04.05.2012

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Andrea Lyon

Like most situations involving human beings, the truth in regards to Trayvon Martin's death is neither simple nor obvious.

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The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste

Michelle Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michelle Alexander

Crime rates do not explain the sudden and dramatic mass incarceration of African Americans during the past 30 years. And the vast majority of that increase is due to the War on Drugs.

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