by Dara Lind (vox.com, February 23, 2015)

After receiving the Oscar for Best Song for Glory from Selma, John Legend gave an impassioned speech calling out the present-day state of affairs for African Americans. One line stood out: “We live in the most incarcerated country in the world. There are more black men under correctional control today than there were under slavery in 1850”. It’s become a widely cited statistic, after the publication of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow in 2011 — which helped make mass incarceration a hot topic of discussion. But is it true? Continua la lettura di John Legend: more black men are in correctional control now than were enslaved in 1850 →