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
Julia Kassem argues the MaxwellāEpstein saga is best understood through the lens of Israeli intelligence networks, tracing a continuity of espionage, blackmail, and media influence from Robertā¦
In this weekās segment, we discuss conditions in Libya, the forces behind the assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and the struggle to regain sovereignty after the 2011 US/NATO destruction of thatā¦
Chris Smalls is the founder of the Amazon Labor Union, the first independent worker-led union in the US and the first to successfully organize an Amazon warehouse. He joins us from London to discussā¦
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libya's assassinated president Muhammad Gaddafi was himself assassinated on February 3, 2026. What does his death tell us about Libya today? We are joined by Essamā¦
Dr. Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor, joins Millennials are Killing Capitalism for a conversation about US-led Imperialism's latest schemes for the people of Haiti. They discuss tacticsā¦
