Thursday, March 28, 2024
Advertisement
Tags Poor and working class white voters

Tag: poor and working class white voters

The new Jim Crow: How the war on drugs gave birth...

Among many startling findings by legal scholar Michelle Alexander, former director of the ACLU's Racial Justice Project here in the Bay Area, is this: There are more African Americans under correctional control today – in prison or jail, on probation or parole – than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.