Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. She is a former Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and Soros Justice Fellow, has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and has run the ACLU of Northern California’s Racial Justice Project. Alexander is a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary and an opinion columnist for the New York Times. The author of The New Jim Crow (The New Press), she lives in Columbus, Ohio.
New Jim Crow Cited in New York Stop and Frisk Decision
Two important decisions on Monday, August 12, indicate significant progress in the efforts to reform our criminal justice system: in New York City’s Floy
C-SPAN has selected The New Jim Crow to kick-off their new online book club. You can join the conversation on Twitter with #BTVBookClub and participate in the discussion on March 26 at 9 p.m. ET.
