Incarceration in America: The Inside Story

 

“BOOKD profiles, The New Jim Crow, legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s breakthrough book about the rise of mass incarceration in America. Alexander agues that “by targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control.

See as a Yale Law Professor, Community Activists, and hip hop legend Talib Kweli debate and discuss this provocative and important book.”
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Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Ford Pt1

 

“On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, tells his story as a red-diaper baby, growing up facing racism in the North living with his white activist mother, and living in the Deep South with his black deejay father –   October 24, 2013″

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

All power to the people.

 

@getgln

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THE NEW JIM CROW Online documentary

“Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I’m reading her EXCELLENT book “The New Jim Crow” on Kindle and tweeting quotes from it.

 

@getgln

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The 40 Year Solitary Confinement of Herman Wallace

“The injustice of his conviction speaks volumes about how broken our criminal justice system is, but his solitary confinement says even more about who we are as a society. The freedom of Mr. Wallace and so many others still being held in such circumstances is not all that has been lost through this cruel and unusual form of punishment.”
See on www.racefiles.com

Jordan Davis’ Killer, Michael Dunn, Unleashes Racist Rant in Letters to Grandma – Atlanta Black Star

If there was any doubt about the true feelings of Michael Dunn, the Florida man who shot and killed 17-year-old Jordan Davis during an argument over loud music, the 46-year-old laid them to rest in letters that he wrote from jail to family members…

See on atlantablackstar.com

Christopher Columbus: father of modern-day white supremacy (part 1)

“The popular mythology that has surrounded Christopher Columbus for the last five centuries, the exaltation of him as “discoverer” of the Americas a.k.a. the ‘New World’, was still being taught as part of elementary school curriculum and touted as historical fact in classrooms all across America as late as the dawn of the dawn of the 21st century, decades after many scholars had begun unmasking this lie.”
See on ushypocrisy.com