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The 10th Anniversary edition of THE NEW JIM CROW: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. Published by @thenewpress

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Here's Michelle Alexander & Paul Butler, author of "Chokehold" on @BillMoyers in 2017 discussing white supremacy, policing, and abolition. billmoyers.com/story/paul-but…

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Abolish Policing, Not Just the Police Join us for a teach-in with Maya Schenwar- read We Grow the World Together!, VictoriaLaw, and NYC Tw*tterati on abolitionist horizons and the limits of reform, hosted with Haymarket Books and Truthout Thursday, July 2 at 8:00 PM ET RSVP to attend: eventbrite.com/e/abolish-poli…

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If you are a teacher/professor, the The New Press is giving away free copies of my book Usual Cruelty for all of your students! Matching copies are sent to a person in prison for every student who gets a book. Please message me!

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“Never did it occur to me that it was fundamentally unjust for me to earn less than the minimum wage + to depend on the good will of strangers in order to earn what was guaranteed by law to most workers.” Michelle Alexander author / The New Jim Crow The New York Times ow.ly/OBAT50DsAEA

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This Friday, we're partnering with Politics and Prose to virtually launch Except for Palestine. The authors Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchell Plitnick 🔥🕎 will be speaking with Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow. Register here: politics-prose.com/event/book/pp-…

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There's still time to register for Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics with Marc Lamont Hill Mitchell Plitnick 🔥🕎 & Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow! We're going live with Politics and Prose at 6:00 PM EST tonight. eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-marc…

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Tune in! “Kilgore presents a devastating critique of policy tools like electronic monitoring ... There is a more promising way forward and this necessary and insightful book helps us to see the path more clearly.”—Michelle Alexander on James Kilgore new book Understanding E-Carceration

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Michelle Alexander’s groundbreaking book The New Jim Crow was published in 2010, and since then has inspired a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations, cited in judicial hearings and read at schools nationwide. cnn.com/2022/02/01/cnn…

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In solidarity with teachers in Florida, Texas and Virginia who insist on their students’ right to study history & contemporary issues, we partnered with Zinn Ed Project to offer free copies of our books (by @nrookie Kimberlé Crenshaw Andrea Ritchie also @dreanyc123.bsky.social NYC Tw*tterati) zinnedproject.org/news/free-book…

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Free book offer expanded to teachers in more states with draconian anti-history ed gag rules. Teachers in Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas -- request a The New Press title ⬇️. Not a teacher? Donate today ⬇️. zinnedproject.org/news/free-book…

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For #BannedBooksWeek, Oprah Daily recommends THE NEW JIM CROW, "one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," on their list of 9 banned books to add to your TBR list ow.ly/WNGQ50PTWK0

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We've made the introduction and ch 4, "The Crisis in Gaza," from EXCEPT FOR PALESTINE by Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchell Plitnick 🔥🕎 available to read free online ⬇️ issuu.com/newpressbooks/…