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
Aly Wane of the Immigrant Justice Network discusses immigration in the second part of a two-part interview. Punitive immigration policies are bipartisan, with groups such as Haitians being targetedā¦
Rafiki Morris joins us from Washington D.C. to discuss the upcoming demonstration, āOpen the Peoples National Assembly in Guinea-Bissauā and why this action is so important.
Dr. Jemima Pierre joins BreakThrough News to discuss the nationwide uprisings in Haiti where thousands of demonstrators have flooded the streets calling for the ouster of the unelected Prime Ministerā¦
Public reaction to the Fani Willis soap opera is an example of how cynical Black misleadership creates confusion among the masses.
At a rally against the House Un-American Activities Committee, insurgent playwright Lorrainne Hansberry called on artists to shake off the fear and incoherency of the world to defend the peoplesāā¦
