Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, Jamal Mims, Occupy Wall Street, Mary Black, and Benita Rivera, parents, Leticia James, NY City Council member
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STOPPING THE NYPD's Stop and Frisk
With
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness
Jamal Mims, Occupy Wall Street
Mary Black, and Benita Rivera, parents
Leticia James, City Council member
More than 700,000, according to NYPD documentation predominantly African-Americans and Latinos have been profiled for stops and frisks, as a result of what is now referred to as the "new"Jim Crow policies of policing and inflicting state terror on communities of color. But, in response to the increasing criminalization of communities of color is a burgeoning movement prepared to, STOP Stop and Frisk as they say no to the new Jim Crow.
produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
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