“Michelle Alexander’s book offers a timely and original framework for understanding mass incarceration, its roots to Jim Crow, our modern caste system, and what must be done to eliminate it.  This book is a call to action.”

—Benjamin Todd Jealous,
President and CEO, NAACP

 

Media appearances

 

• Up with Chris Hayes (MSNBC), 2/4/2012

• NPR's Fresh Air, 1/16/12

• Religion & Ethics Newsweekly on PBS, 1/14/12

• Democracy Now, 1/13/12

• Tavis Smiley, 3/19/10

• Bill Moyers Journal, 4/2/10

• The Last Word, MSNBC, 6/17/11 with Lawrence O'Donnell

• The Ed Show, MSNBC, 9/22/11

• Democracy Now: Part one (3/11/10) | Part two (3/12/10)

• Legally Speaking, 6/20/11

• Grit TV, 7/30/11, Part 1 of 2

• Grit TV, 8/14/11, Part 2 of 2

• CSpan Washington Journal

 

 

Print media

• "Schools and the New Jim Crow," by Jody Sokolower Rethinking Schools, Winter 2011-2012

• “The new Jim Crow is alive and thriving,” by Leonard Pitts
The Miami Herald, January 15, 2012

• “The New Jim Crow: A Must Read,” by Leonard Pitts
Tribune Media Services, June 28, 2010

• “Battle of Words in War on Drugs,” by Leonard Pitts
Tribune Media Services, July 20, 2010

• “The Incarceration Bubble,” by Carol Van Strum
The Daily Kos, April 25, 2010

• “More Black Men in Prison Than Were Enslaved in 1850,” by Thoai Lu
Colorlines, March 30, 2011

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, reviewed by Reginald T. Shuford
California Lawyer

• “Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Four Books to Consider,” by Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO, NAACP
Wall Street Journal, January 17, 2011

• “Invisible Black America,” by Darryl Pinckney
New York Review of Books, March 10, 2011

• The New Jim Crow, reviewed by Terri Schlichenmeyer
New Pittsburgh Courier, March 24, 2010