Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

“Trying to Build in the Rubble of Neoliberalism”: Michelle Alexander and Naomi Klein on Bringing Movements Together

How do we envision the movements necessary to get beyond the existential threats to the planet and its people?

By: Michelle Alexander ,; Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ,; Naomi Klein ,; Truthout

July 6, 2017

Beyond Celebrity Politics and Capitalism: From Justin Trudeau to Bernie Sanders, and More

“We need to question the celebrity relationship with politicians that has colonized the whole political spectrum,” says Naomi Klein.

By: Michelle Alexander ,; Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ,; Naomi Klein ,; Truthout

July 3, 2017

Economy & Labor

“People Were Resisting Before Trump”: Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in Conversation

Three thinkers and authors discuss the limitations of the framework of “resistance.”

By: Michelle Alexander ,; Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ,; Naomi Klein ,; Truthout

June 18, 2017

Op-Ed

Following Horrific Violence, Something More Is Required of Us

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 US.

By: Michelle Alexander ,; Moyers&Company

July 11, 2016

Op-Ed

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted - and Hillary Clinton supported - decimated Black America.

By: Michelle Alexander ,; TheNation

February 12, 2016

Excerpt

America’s Current Racial Caste System – We Need to Ensure That It Is Our Last

No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that Americau2019s current racial caste system is its last.

By: Michelle Alexander ,; TheNewPress

July 24, 2012

Michelle Alexander With Laura Flanders: Face the New Jim Crow Part 2 (Video)

Click here to view Part 1.

By: Laura Flanders &; Michelle Alexander ,

August 15, 2011

Op-Ed

Think Outside the Bars: Real Justice Means Fewer Prisons

(Photo: Thiago Souto / Flickr) A white woman with gray hair pulled neatly into a bun raises her hand. She keeps it up, unwavering and rigid, as …

By: Michelle Alexander ,; YES!Magazine

June 12, 2011

The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste

Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took his oath of office, pledging to serve the United States as its 44th president, ordinary people and their leaders …

By: Michelle Alexander ,; TomDispatch.com|Review

March 8, 2010

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