Michelle Alexander

Who Would Jesus Incarcerate?

Posted on August 6, 2011August 8, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as Who Would Jesus Incarcerate? on Blogcritics. Evangelical activist and author Jim Wallis recently framed debate about our nation’s debt as a potential “moral defa... Read More

Book Review — “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness”

Posted on July 28, 2011August 5, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as Book Review: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander on Blogcritics. I thought that I understood racism. After reading Michelle Alexander’s, The New Jim Crow: Mass Inca... Read More

What to a Felon is the Fourth of July?

Posted on July 11, 2011July 11, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as What to a Felon is the Fourth of July? on Blogcritics. One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, Frederick Douglass was invited to give a speech to commemorate the birth of what... Read More