Episodes

Thursday May 03, 2012
The New Jim Crow
Thursday May 03, 2012
Thursday May 03, 2012
As part of the national YWCA Stand Against Racism weekend, we reflect on the provocative new book, The New Jim Crow. Activists and scholars are increasingly recognizing how the system of mass incarceration, felony disenfranchisement, and the War on Drugs have constituted a formally race-neutral but in fact racially oppressive system of control. The Rev. Dr. Matthew Johnson-Doyle shares his thoughts about this system and what our religious values call us to do about it.
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