Michelle Alexander, a civil rights activist and the author of “The New Jim Crow,” will speak at 7 p.m. Nov ...Alexander’s career spans law, academia, advocacy and journalism, and her book “The New Jim Crow ... Share this. ... .
Told through the voice of a seven-and-a-half-year-old Black girl growing up in the Jim CrowSouth of 1952, the book blends vivid storytelling with fictionalized conversations to paint a powerful ...