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The Architecture of Oppression: How Systemic Racism Built America's Prison Industrial Complex and Why History Keeps Repeating
Fannie Lou Hamer said it plainly. "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." She said it in 1964, standing before a nation that had beaten her, jailed her, and shot at her simply for trying to vote. She said it because she understood something that too many Americans still refuse to accept: that the suffering of Black and Brown people in this country is not accidental, not incidental, and not the product of individual bad actors. It is structural. It is intentional. And i
May 416 min read
The Corporate Bill Mill: Who ALEC Is, Who Funds It, Who Benefits, and What You Can Do About It
Most Americans have never heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council. That is not an accident. It is a strategy. ALEC is not a lobbying firm, though it functions like one. It is not a political party, though it operates like one. It is not a government agency, though it writes the laws that govern millions of people's lives. ALEC is a pay-to-play operation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1973 that brings state legislators and private corporations into the same ro
May 414 min read
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