Michelle Alexander’s Brilliant Intro to “Beyond Vietnam”
"We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end, unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy.”
DN! War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration: Michelle Alexander, Susan Burton (Videos)
Civil rights advocate and best-selling author Michelle Alexander responds to the new push by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to escalate the war on drugs
▶ DN! | “Mr. Smith Goes to Prison”: After Year in Jail, Former State Senator Condemns Mass Incarceration
[Smith] chronicles his experience in his new book, "Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America’s Prison Crisis," which he calls "a scathing indictment of a system that teaches prisoners to be better criminals instead of better citizens."
Video: Author Michelle Alexander on the 21st Century Jim Crow
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgM5NAq6cGI&w=425&h=349] Author Michelle Alexander on the 21st Century Jim Crow Litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, argues that we have not ended racial caste in America, we have simply redesigned it: The U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary means of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the More