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Michelle Alexander Extended Interview
Clip: 1/13/2012 | 8m 13s
Watch more of our conversation with Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow."
"We could have responded to poverty and joblessness and drug addiction with care, compassion, and concern. But instead we declared a literal war." Watch more of our conversation with Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow," about crime, the war on drugs, and the disproportionately high number of African-Americans in prison.
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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Michelle Alexander Extended Interview
Clip: 1/13/2012 | 8m 13s
"We could have responded to poverty and joblessness and drug addiction with care, compassion, and concern. But instead we declared a literal war." Watch more of our conversation with Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow," about crime, the war on drugs, and the disproportionately high number of African-Americans in prison.
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