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Michelle Alexander On How Ferguson Shows The Truth About Our Racist Criminal Justice System

Jessica Stites March 4, 2015

Civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, appears on Democracy Now on March 4 to discuss the recent report documenting rampant racial discrimination in Ferguson, MO, and why our criminal justice system needs to be undone.

Jessica Stites is Editorial Director of In These Times.

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