Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander Explains Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 10, 2016 “It seems that we—black people—are her winning card,” writes Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow,” at The Nation. “And it seems we’re eager to get played. Again.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Corporate Capitalism Is the Foundation of Police Brutality and the Prison State

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jul 6, 2015 Only when corporate capitalism is demolished will the indiscriminate use of lethal police force and mass incarceration be reformed. And only then will we finally address white supremacy and racism. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

America’s Deadly Bias Against Trayvon Martin

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 17, 2013 Law professor Michelle Alexander told "Democracy Now!" on Wednesday that "the [Zimmerman mindset] that views black men and boys as a perpetual problem to be dealt with has infected our criminal justice system, infected our schools, has infected our politics in ways that have had disastrous consequences, birthing a prison system unprecedented in world history, and stripping millions of people of basic civil and human rights." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Call to Action

By James Cromwell May 23, 2013 The Obama administration has passed or made use of a host of laws to infringe our civil liberties, obliterate the balance of power, legitimize a military dictatorship, and control the dissemination of truth in the name of protecting its "secrets." Soon we will have lost our freedom, not to some foreign nation that hates it, but to our own devices.The Obama administration has passed or made use of a host of laws to infringe our civil liberties, legitimize a military dictatorship and control the dissemination of the truth. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Incarceration — It’s Catching

By Michelle Alexander Oct 21, 2011 Is the massive surge of imprisonment a contagious disease? Does the answer lie in the structure of our democracy? Two new books suggest so. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Five Women Who Matter Most

Helen Redmond / Truthdig Oct 5, 2011 The Forbes list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women is an obscenely wealthy international sisterhood of politicians, celebrities and billionaires This is an alternativeForbes' World’s 100 Most Powerful Women are an obscenely wealthy sisterhood of politicians, celebrities and billionaires. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )