Michelle Alexander, a civil rights activist and the author of “The New Jim Crow,” will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 at the University Memorial Center’s Glenn Miller Ballroom at the ...

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 ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s 10th pick for his Year of Books is Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. This is the gut-churning story of mass incarcerations, legal systems for the right-color skin, and why ...

I thought Jim Crow was dead, but it seems to be making a comeback through policies designed to roll back progress.

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 ...

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 ...