Michelle Alexander, the Myth of Desegregation

February 13, 2012

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Civil rights lawyer, advocate and legal scholar Michelle Alexander is here to talk about the state of segregation in America today.  Her book is The New Jim Crow: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.  Use this post as today’s thread and click thru to see Sam subbing for Keith Olbermann on CURRENT.   We’ve also got the crazy-town spoof staring Andrew Breitbart. 

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