May 31, 2012

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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 3)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Jim Crow, Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Prison Industrial Complex, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Drug War, Edward Byrne Memorial Grant Program, Michelle Alexander, Mass Incarceration, Illegal Immigrants, Private Prisons, Obama Drug War, Drug Policy, Politics News

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks About The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Prison Industrial Complex, Mass Incarceration, Obama War on Drugs, Ronald Reagan, Prison, Richard Nixon, Crack Cocaine, Michelle Alexander, The War on Drugs, Cocaine, Crack, Southern Strategy, War on Drugs Failure, Black Voices News

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 1)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Crack, Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Ronald Reagan, Cocaine, Richard Nixon, Michelle Alexander, Mass Incarceration, Prison, Obama War on Drugs, War on Drugs, War on Drugs Failure, The War on Drugs, Southern Strategy, Politics News

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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An American Tragedy: The War on Drugs

Dr. Lawrence M. Schall | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Michelle Alexander, Jim Crow, War on Drugs, Slavery by Another Name, Blackmon, Politics News

Because mass incarceration has become so normalized in our country, the withholding of the most basic of human and democratic rights -- the right to vote -- has also become the norm.

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WATCH: MSNBC Host On 'Abomination' That's Not Being Discussed In Campaign

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Video, Msnbc, Up With Chris Hayes, Chris Hayes, The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, Chris Hayes Prisons, Media News

MSNBC's Chris Hayes used his Saturday show to discuss what he called the "abomination" that was not being addressed in the 2012 campaign: the American...

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Would Jesus Belong To A Country Club?

Andy Watts | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Prosecutorial Discretion, Jesus, White Privilege, Michelle Alexander, Judiciary, Racism, Justice, Mark 10, Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability of the Judicial Conference of the United States, Race Relations, Religion News

My point is this: white privilege is a system of social advantage that connects the courts to the fairways and the boardrooms to club dining rooms.

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'Felon' Is The New N-Word

Christine A. Scheller | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Michelle Alexander, Racism in the Criminal Justice System, War on Drugs, Racial Injustice, Prison Reform, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, The New Jim Crow, Race in America, Criminal Justice System, Racism, Religion News

Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow" challenges us to confront the shame of our criminal justice system in the pursuit of real justice.

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New Rhetoric, Same Old Drug War Policies: Drug Czar Addresses African American Community

Tony Newman | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Drug Arrests, Drug Policy Alliance, Prison Industrial Complex, Alice Huffman, Marijuana, Drug War, Drug Czar, Michelle Alexander, War on Drugs, Naacp, Politics News

It is simply Orwellian for the drug czar to focus on the disproportionate impact of our nation's drug problem on African-American communities without acknowledging the disproportionate racial impact of drug law enforcement.

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NYC Wins Award for the Most Marijuana Arrests in the World

Jesse Levine | Posted 07.25.2011

Community leaders, drug policy reform advocates and two members of the City Council gave a satirical award to Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday for making New York City the "Marijuana Arrest Capitol Of The World."

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Michelle Alexander And Dr. Vincent Harding Visit Manual High School

Posted 05.25.2011

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"How many of you know someone who has been killed in gang violence?" Denver teacher and self-awareness coach Ra Maat asks an auditorium half-filled wi...

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Justice: In Need of Overdraft Protection

James Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Cuomo, Economics, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Incarceration, Corrections, Jerry Brown, Michelle Alexander, Government Spending, Criminal Justice, Newt Gingrich, MLK Day, Juvenile Justice, Politics News

Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday comes at a particularly interesting time this year, as recent events bring the administration of justice into sharp ...

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Four Books for Martin Luther King Day

Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paula Young Shelton, Martin Luther King, Incarceration, Books, New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, Martin Luther King Day, Mlk, Reading, Civil Rights, Naacp, Shankar Vedantam, Books News

It is our loss if we don't stop for a moment and seize the opportunity to reflect on how we can unite our country and move our democracy forward. Here are some books to read during the MLK Day holiday.

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Racism Is Hardly a Thing of the Past

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Alexander, War-on-Drugs, Racism, Post Racial America, Incarceration Rates, African Americans, Marijuana, Books News

Is Jim Crow back? Are African Americans, particularly African American men, once more suffering systematic discrimination on the basis of race -- a discrimination that locks them out of equal rights and basic citizenship?

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Lock-up: What Behind the Mass Incarceration Across the Nation?

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crimes, Criminal Law, Felony, Jim Crow, Jim Crow Laws, Michelle Alexander, Racial Caste System, Racialized Social Control, Social Control, The New Jim Crow, War on Drugs, Misdemeanors, Mass Incarceration, Mass-Incarceration-and-Colorblindness, Colorblindness, Politics News

Where have all the black men gone? Michelle Alexander, in her recently released book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, answers the question head on.

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