More than forty years after the civil rights movement that ended legal segregation, African-American men are six times more likely than whites to be imprisoned, especially for drug offenses, in what has been called a \u201chuman rights nightmare.\u201d “Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind in the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again once you\u2019ve been branded a felon,” says Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"