For me, the three most important books I’ve read in the past few years are The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates and The Hemingses of Monticello: An ...

ELEC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller'"one of the most influential books of the 20 years," according to the Chronicle ...

As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled ...

Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator, legal scholar, and New York Times best-selling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, will speak about her ...