Legal scholar and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander asserts that America's racial caste system is in place by design, even though the blatantly racist and segregationist Jim Crow laws were eradicated. It has simply been redesigned: Now racial control functions through the criminal justice system. MORE
Michelle Alexander on the new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Amy Goodman interviews scholar Dr. Michelle Alexander, who contributed to the book, Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America. It was inspired by historic recordings preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives, directed by Brian DeShazor. Redefining Black Power is published by City Lights Books and includes contributions from civil rights-era activists such as Vincent Harding, who was a close associate and former speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Harding drafted King’s historic April 1967 antiwar speech, "Beyond Vietnam." More
Amy Goodman interviews scholar Dr. Michelle Alexander, who contributed to the book, Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America. It was inspired by historic recordings preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives, directed by Brian DeShazor. Redefining Black Power is published by City Lights Books and includes contributions from civil rights-era activists such as Vincent Harding, who was a close associate and former speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Harding drafted King’s historic April 1967 antiwar speech, "Beyond Vietnam." More- Michelle Alexander: author, former director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of No. California, jointly appointment to the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State Univ.
