Michelle Alexander

Even news personalities like Marc Lamont Hill now argue that abolition is a real and tangible goal.

For making legitimate criticisms of Israeli apartheid, I am often called a “self-hating Jew.”

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

Two works by young scholars of color bring fresh perspectives to the history of mass incarceration and the rise of debtors' prisons.

Although “prison reform” is gaining steam in progressive and conservative circles alike, it doesn't always look like progress.

Efforts to address the over-incarceration of people living with mental illness often overlook the crucial component of race.

Markers of economic and social inequality abound, so it should come as no surprise that US institutions are ripe with racial injustice.

Alexander looks at the historical roots of “the new Jim Crow.”

“America are finally waking up,” says Michelle Alexander.

The quest to overturn structural racial and economic injustice in the United States is arguably most powerful in the growing movement to end the racialized system of mass incarceration. …