Raleigh Friends Meeting will be reading Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness  and hosting a discussion group.  The New Jim Crow is about how the political system has been used to use the War on Drugs as a way to create a new de facto Jim Crow system by disproportionately targeting African American communties. As a resource, we have compiled a list of materials, organizations, and websites that address the intersections of criminal justice and race.

We will meet the following dates:

7/30/15: Introduction led by Kathy K.

8/6/15: Chapter One: The Rebirth of Caste led by Kathy S. 

8/13/15: Chapter Two: The Lockdown led by Paul P.

8/20/15: Chapter Three:  The Color of Justice led by Kathy S.

8/27/15: Chapter Four: The Cruel Hand led by Rudy

9/3/15: Chapter Five:  The New Jim Crow led by Doug

9/10/15: Chapter Six: The Fire This Time led by Sue

Video

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Prison (HBO) (Satire Warning!)
"How Quakers Can Help End Mass Incarceration" by Quaker Speak 
Author Michelle Alexander Interview

Websites

http://newjimcrow.com/: Alexander maintains an incredibly rich website with a variety of resources, including a newsletter, multiple study guides (for Black faith communities, Unitarian Universalists, and high school students)

Campaign to End the New Jim Crow http://www.endnewjimcrow.org/

Study Guides

The New Jim Crow Study Guide and Call to Action: http://www.newjimcroworganizing.org/studyguide.html

The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, a network of several thousand progressive black churches: http://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/0976514540

Unitarian Universalist Association: http://www.uua.org/documents/lfd/commonread/crow_discussion.pdf

Campaign to End the New Jim Crow (CENJC), an organizing project of the Riverside Church Prison Ministry (used by AFSC): http://www.endnewjimcrow.org/CENJC_Study_Guide__LW__.pdf

Also, Wikipedia has a chapter by chapter overview for the 6 chapters, but not the introduction.  

Local Organizations 

Former Incarcerated

Passage Home: www.passagehome.org

Race-based School Suspension

Coalition of Concerned Citizens for African-American Children http://www.cccaac.com/

NC HEAT http://wakeyouth.wordpress.com/category/nc-heat/

National Organizations
Fellowship of Reconciliation 

News Articles

http://www.npr.org/2014/06/04/318801651/burning-down-the-house-makes-the-case-against-juvenile-incarceration

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jonathanwilsonhartgrove/2014/06/struggle-for-racial-justice-is-local/

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/homepage-feature/item/68793-at-easter...

For-profit prisons threaten public safety

“Slavery to Mass Incarceration” video

Police Brutality and Black Lives Matter Movement-related Articles and Videos

The next time someone says ‘all lives matter,’ show them these 5 paragraphs

Traffic Stop (Story Corps)

Larry Wilmore Dissects The Dash Cam Video Of Sandra Bland’s Arrest And Delivers Spot On Commentary (VIDEO)

It's Our White Culture's Fault That Black and Brown Folks Are Being Lynched By the Police

Protesters question Denver police killing of mentally ill Native American -- Native Americans are killed by police at a higher rate than any other ethnic group.

Required Reading: Putting America’s Legacy of Failing Black Women Into Historical Context

Civil Rights Activist Arrested At Traffic Stop, Found Dead In Jail