Mississippi Valley State University News April 3, 2012 New 'Read & Review' Program to Examine The New Jim Crow "Read & Review with Arts & Sciences at The Valley" is a new program started by Dean Tazinski P. Lee to encourage reading and discussing books in a public forum on campus. Attorney Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," is the first book to be discussed. It is an eye-opening read that links Jim Crow and legal segregation to the mass incarceration of Black men. Featured on The Tavis Smiley Show, Bill Moyers Journal, Democracy Now!, and C-Span's Washington Journal, The New Jim Crow has become an overnight phenomenon, sparking a much-needed conversation about ways in which our system of mass incarceration has come to resemble systems of racial control from a different era. Carefully researched, deeply engaging, and thoroughly readable. -Publishers Weekly A call to action for everyone concerned with racial justice and an important tool for anyone concerned with understanding and dismantling this oppressive system. -Sojourners Undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S. -Birmingham News The program launches on Thursday, April 19, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. in Sutton 108. A panel featuring Drs. Ricky Hill, Rasheedah Jenkins, Rodrick Jenkins, and Prof. Amber Hendricks will share their reviews of Alexander's book and entertain questions afterwards. Join us for our first program and make it a success. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-520-0593 Skype:sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/2012meeting-form.html for the October 21-23, 2012 HBCU Library Alliance 5th Membership Meeting and the Photographic Preservation Pre-Conference in New Orleans, LA. The Pre-Conference and Membership meeting are open to directors and other librarians.