Episode · Pod Save America · 2024-05-29

John Legend on Pod Save America: books mentioned

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John Legend discussed The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   The New Jim Crow

   Michelle Alexander · at 5:55 · mentioned 2 times

   The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is a groundbreaking sociological study arguing that the American war on drugs functioned as a deliberate system of racial control, driving mass incarceration and stripping millions of African Americans of their basic civil rights.

   Discussed

   “I think really was motivated just by me reading about things so I would read books that kind of um pushed me to think about some of these issues um like you know the new gem Crow by Michelle Alexander and and other books that you know made me feel a sense of urgency”

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