Library to Explore “New Jim Crow” With Discussion and Workshop


The
Tompkins County Public Library will explore Michelle Alexander’s much-talked
about book, “The New Jim Crow:  Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness” with a community conversation and workshop this month.

Eric Kofi
Acree, director of Cornell University’s John Henrik Clarke Africana Library,
will lead a community book discussion on Alexander’s controversial work, which
challenges