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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (The New Press/Shutterstock)

NJ prisons ban book criticizing prisons

Charlie May
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 24: Michelle Alexander speaks onstage at "An Evening With John Legend" hosted by POLITICO to kick-off White House Correspondents' weekend at Longview Gallery on April 24, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images) (Brad Barket)

Michelle Alexander for SCOTUS

Sophia Tesfaye

Welcome to the new Jim Crow

Sean Beaudoin, Meg Worden - The Weeklings
Barack Obama participates in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, March 7, 2015. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

The left's racial dilemma

Elias Isquith