Michelle Alexander, civil rights advocate, law professor at Ohio State University, and author of the New York Times best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ...

The United States has the largest prison population in the world. But, until the publication of Michelle Alexander’s book “The New Jim Crow,” in 2010, most people didn’t use the term “mass ...

Alexander has taught at a number of universities, including Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor of law and directed the Civil Rights Clinics. In 2005, she won a Soros Justice ...

Civil-rights attorney and New Albany resident Michelle Alexander is one of five people honored on Wednesday with $250,000 prizes from the Heinz Family Foundation. Alexander’s book “The New Jim Crow: ...

Editor’s note: This event has been canceled. Michelle Alexander, a civil rights activist and the author of “The New Jim Crow,” will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 at the University Memorial Center’s Glenn ...