Part One of this interview appeared here, in the January 6 issue of BAR. On January 20, BAR will begin publishing excerpts from The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness [The New Press].
āMass incarceration has turned the Black community against itself,ā says Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Black Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Mainstream organizations like the Congressional Black Caucus and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights put out laundry lists of proposed reforms, while failing to make Americaās Black Gulag a priority. āIf the way we pursue reforms does not contribute to the building of a movement to dismantle the system of mass incarceration,ā says the veteran civil rights lawyer, āand if our advocacy does not upset the prevailing public consensus that supports the new caste system, none of the reforms, even if won, will successfully disrupt the nationās racial equilibrium.ā
Harris County, home to a world-renowned medical center, holds the worst maternal death rate for Black women in the entire nation. This staggering statistic represents a systemic failure that subjectsā¦
Venezuela's official stance remains one of principled anti-imperialism. Internal discussions reflect the complex realities of navigating a crisis.
Netanyahu's continuation of the Gaza genocide is integral to the continuity of the zionist project.
In this weekās segment, we discuss the abuse of state power domestically and internationally. In Minnesota, the Trump administration has unleashed ICE, resulting in the fatal shooting of a US citizenā¦
Diego Sequera is a Venezuelan journalist. He joins us from Caracas to discuss the Venezuelan people's solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution in the wake of the January 3rd kidnapping of Presidentā¦
