US MI: Column: Jim Crow’s Drug War

Metro Times, 28 Nov 2012 – Why the War on Drugs Is a War Against Black People Attorney Michelle Alexander has been shaking things up across the nation over the past two years, yet you may not have heard of her. Her book, The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, takes on race and the War on Drugs in ways few people would dare to approach.