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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

A new organization, Validus Movement, has emerged in Indianapolis to empower individuals reentering society after ...

Josh Riddick, a founder of Validus Movement, highlighted some of those systemic challenges: “Our mass incarceration system ... of the effects of Jim Crow. People are forced to work for pennies ...