Does Jim Crow still exist in America?

Does the United States still function under a racial caste system? Civil rights advocate and author Michelle Alexander presents a sobering history of the policies that target people of color for mass incarceration-and proposes to end what she labels “the new Jim Crow.” This talk was filmed at TEDxColumbus.
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