Michelle Alexander Extended Interview

“We could have responded to poverty and joblessness and drug addiction with care, compassion, and concern. But instead we declared a literal war.” Watch more of our conversation with law professor and author Michelle Alexander about crime, the war on drugs, and the disproportionately high number of African-Americans in prison.

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