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  • Justice
    Michelle Alexander and Paul Butler Talking About ‘Chokehold: Policing Black Men’
    October 16, 2017
    A conversation about white supremacy, the criminal justice system and the transformation that's needed.
  • Democracy & Government
    Books for the Trump Years
    December 21, 2016
    | Michael Winship
    As we reach the end of annus horribilis 2016, take some time to read — or listen — to these suggestions from a few of our friends.
  • Society
    The 2016 Election Exposed Deep-Seated Racism
    November 25, 2016
    | brandontensley, Michael C. Richardson and Rejane Frederick
    Trump was a backlash to the Obama years. America needs to fight harder to see permanent progress, healing and reconciliation.
  • Inequality
    Racism in America: How Did We Get Here?
    January 1, 2015
    While much of our "national discussion" of race is a shoutfest, Bill's taken a different approach to a tough subject.
  • Race, the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration
    March 6, 2014
    Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander explains what's really behind America's system of mass incarceration.
  • Three Ways to Fight Racism in 2014
    January 6, 2014
    | Mychal Denzel Smith
    Shelving "respectability politics" and other steps toward achieving racial justice.
  • Michelle Alexander — Locked Out of America
    December 20, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander tells Bill about an emerging movement that aims to end mass incarceration and its impact on America.
  • Incarceration Nation
    December 20, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    Bill Moyers speaks with activist Michelle Alexander about the key to unlocking our dehumanizing system of incarceration, and shares a clip from a film about an ex-convict who helps women get back on their feet after prison.
  • Understanding the New Jim Crow
    December 20, 2013
    | Michelle Alexander
    Michelle Alexander explains how she came to understand that the racial caste system in America has not ended, it's just been redesigned.
  • Essential Facts and Figures on Incarceration in America
    December 20, 2013
    | John Light
    Mass incarceration has become a form of legalized discrimination that makes it more difficult for millions to participate in basic aspects of our democracy.


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