Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander is a legal scholar, human rights advocate and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Follow updates about The New Jim Crow on Twitter: @thenewjimcrow.

ALL POSTS BY Michelle Alexander

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  Activism

  Susan Burton, a Modern-Day Harriet Tubman

  May 12, 2017

  | Michelle Alexander

  Reading her life story will change the way you view the world.
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  Justice

  Following Horrific Violence, Something More is Required of Us

  July 9, 2016

  | Michelle Alexander

  We need a profound shift in our collective consciousness in order to challenge an entrenched system of racial and social control — and build a new America.