Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. She is a former Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and Soros Justice Fellow, has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and has run the ACLU of Northern California’s Racial Justice Project. Alexander is a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary and an opinion columnist for the New York Times. The author of The New Jim Crow (The New Press), she lives in Columbus, Ohio.

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News and Reviews

Future Lions of New York [February 16, 2018 - New York Times] Since the legendary chaos of 1970s and ’80s, New York has ev

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Controversial New Jim Crow Ban Lifted

The ACLU of New Jersey Successfully Challenges the New Jersey Correctional System’s Ban on Access to The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander’s

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The 25th anniversary benefit held on November 9 at the Rubin Museum of Art was a remarkable triumph for The New Press.

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Ava DuVernay’s 13th Features New Press Authors

We are very proud that Ava DuVernay’s Academy Award–nominated documentary 13th features six New Press authors and their books—Miche

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Books by Michelle Alexander

El color de la justicia

El color de la justicia

La nueva segregación racial en Estados Unidos

Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander