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New Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander at Dillard Nov. 28

Dillard University will present author, attorney, and advocate Michelle Alexander for this year’s Ortique Lecture on Law and Society at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Georges Auditorium on the university’s main campus (2601 Gentilly Blvd.). Alexander’s recent book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, challenges the conventional wisdom that, with the New Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander at Dillard Nov. 28