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Michelle Alexander’s best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness, has laid bare the systematic racism at the heart of the prison build-up and has caused a sensation, galvanizing communities.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by chicantv

YOUTUBE (46:11)

Click Here to view an outstanding 46-minute Video of Professor Michelle Alexander

in Chicago at Hartzell Church/The Black Star Project.

The Abyssinian Baptist Church traces its roots to 1808 at 40 Worth Street in lower Manhattan when Black parishioners left the First Baptist Church of New York in protest over racially segregated seating. In 1908, Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. became pastor of the church, and in 1923, he oversaw its move uptown to its current location on West 138th Street in Harlem, New York. By the time he handed the reins of the church to his son, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., in 1935, the Abyssinian Baptist Church had become the largest Protestant congre