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Michelle Alexander (born October 7, 1967) is an American writer, attorney, and civil rights activist. She is best known for her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Since 2018, she has been an opinion columnist for the New York Times.
Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, a bestselling book that challenges the myth of racial progress in America. Learn about her life, career, awards and activism in this brief biography.
Jan 17, 2020 · Ten years ago, Michelle Alexander, a lawyer and civil-rights advocate, published “ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness .”
Apr 29, 2014 · Michelle Alexander is a civil-rights advocate, lawyer, legal scholar and professor. She explains how the war on drugs spawned a system of mass incarceration that targets nonviolent offenders and strips them of civil and human rights. She also discusses the impact of mass incarceration on America's communities, economy and culture.
The New Jim Crow is a book by civil-rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander that reveals the rebirth of a caste-like system in the US, where millions of African Americans are locked behind bars and denied basic rights. The book challenges the civil rights community and all of us to confront the reality of racial discrimination and injustice in the criminal justice system.
Civil rights lawyer and author Michelle Alexander speaks to the YDS community about the systemic racism and injustice of America's legal and penal system. She challenges people of faith to care about the "least of these" and to join the movement for racial equality.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar.
