“After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.”
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David Levering Lewis
David Levering Lewis is an esteemed university professor known for his contributions to the field of history. Born on May 25, 1936, he is renowned for his research on African American history. more
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