Tuesday, October 15, 2013

An Excellent Lecture by Michelle Alexander on the Causes and Consequences of America’s War on Drugs

Below you will find an excellent lecture by Michelle Alexander on the racist aspect of America’s War on Drugs and the insane policies that keep this system of mass incarceration churning.

Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow" - 2013 George E. Kent Lecture

"Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one of the earliest tenured African American professors at the University of Chicago.

"The Annual George E. Kent Lecture is organized and sponsored by the Organization of Black Students, the Black Student Law Association, and the Students for a Free Society."
Further information by Michelle Alexander regarding this topic at: "How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste"