Michelle Alexander
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Strong Convictions — America’s Drug War Has Led to a ‘New and Improved’ Racial Caste System, Argues Michelle Alexander
“The truth is this: We have allowed a human-rights nightmare to occur on our watch,” she told a packed house at Langford Auditorium back in January while delivering the keynote address for Vanderbilt’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration. “In the years since Dr. King’s death, a vast new system of racial and social control has emerged from the ashes of slavery and Jim Crow.” Read MoreJan 20, 2014
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MLK Day keynote address: Michelle Alexander on “The New Jim Crow”
Watch video of legal scholar Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” delivering the keynote address at Vanderbilt University’s annual event commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read MoreJan 21, 2013