Mark Zuckerberg’S Year Of Books: Michelle Alexander’S The New Jim Crow
Mark Zuckerberg’s 10th pick for his Year of Books is Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. This is the gut-churning story of mass incarcerations, legal systems for the right-color skin, and why America’s fight for Civil Rights is anything but over. If you are young and black and live in Washington, D.C., statistically there’s a three-in-four chance you’ll end up in prison at some point in your life. Since the Reagan administration and the War on Drugs, the American justice System has been practically designed to assure it. Thanks to the Civil Rights act of 1964, discrimination based on “race,…
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