Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer and advocate, a legal scholar and the author of the New York Times best seller “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” The book ...

Cash bail makes a mockery of our justice system. It punishes the poor not for their crimes — for they are innocent until proved guilty — but for their poverty. And despite what some politicians and ...

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 ...

Keynote speaker Michelle Alexander The keynote speaker was Michelle Alexander, a lawyer and scholar. With an attendance of over 5,000 individuals, she addressed key themes from her groundbreaking book ...

More than a dozen authors, including Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar and Isabella Hammad, have signed a protest letter that announced their withdrawal. By Alexandra Alter ...