Starting with The New Jim Crow, North Carolina is reviewing its prisons’ banned books lists
Earlier this month, we wrote about a successful campaign by the ACLU of New Jersey to remove Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow from the list of banned books… Read more »
New York prisons are severely limiting prisoners’ access to books
Earlier this week, we wrote about a policy that banned inmates in at least two New Jersey prisons from reading Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in… Read more »
Following shootings, a surge in sales of books on race in the Twin Cities
As the people of the Twin Cities grapple with the police shooting of Philandro Castile outside of St. Paul, together with the shootings in Baton Rouge and Dallas, some seem to… Read more »
Sonia Sotomayor likes books and is a hero
Justice Felix Frankfurter was many things: an early columnist for the New Republic, a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, an immigrant who had a tremendous impact on his adoptive country,… Read more »