Activists are warning of a return to the Jim Crow era in America. But who or what was Jim Crow?
Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...
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The Truth about Mass Incarceration
Her 2010 book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, is, as Cornel West put it, “the secular bible for a new social movement in early twenty-first-century America.” ...
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Unlock ‘Em Up?
Senator Rand Paul has called mass incarceration “the new Jim Crow.” And Carly Fiorina suggested during the last debate that “we have the highest incarceration rates in the world. Two-thirds ...
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Long-overdue memorial to Galveston's Jim Crow Black lifeguards coming next month
During Galveston's Jim Crow era, Black islanders who fancied a dip in the Gulf of Mexico were limited to a narrow strip of beach between 27th and 28th streets or an area west of town known as ...
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Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause and Disenfranchising Felons
According to Michelle Alexander in her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, “We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” ...
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Indy's Validus Movement seeks to empower those returning from incarceration
A new organization, Validus Movement, has emerged in Indianapolis to empower individuals reentering society after ...